A Necessary Fantasy?
Subtitle: The Heroic Figure in Children's Popular Culture (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: July 6, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780815318446
Subjects: Children's literature studies: general; Mass Communication; Sociology; Literary Criticism; Popular Culture - General; Media Studies; Children's Studies; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Child Development; Children's Literature - General; Children's mass media; Heroes in mass media; Popular Culture
First sentence: The contributors to this book address, from a variety of critical perspectives, the central issues of what constitutes heroism and the nature of the heroic figure in American, Australian, and British popular culture.