Philosophy in children's literature
By: edited by Peter R. Costello
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780739168233; 9780739168240
Subjects: Philosophy in literature; Children's literature; History and criticism
Description: "This book seeks to join the ongoing, interdisciplinary approach to children's literature by means of sustained readings of individual texts by means of important works in the history of philosophy. Its inclusion of authors from both various departments--philosophy, literature, religion, and education--and various countries is an attempt to show how traditional boundaries between disciplines might become more permeable and how philosophy offers important insights to this interdisciplinary, critical conversation"--provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Picturebooks; title: Chapter 1: Heidegger, Winnicott, and The Velveteen Rabbit: Anxiety, Toys, and the Drama of Metaphysics; title: Kirsten Jacobson; title: Chapter 2: Slave Morality in The Rainbow Fish; title: Claudia Mills; title: Chapter 3: Absolutely Positively Feeling that Way and More: Paradoxes of Fiction and Judith Viorst’s Alexander stories; title: Dina Mendonca; title: Chapter 4: Are You My Mother? Finding the Self in (M)others; title: Licia Carlson; title: Chapter 5: Horton Hears Badiou!: Ethics and an Understanding of Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!; title: Carl F. Miller; title: Chapter 6: Mapping Chris Van Allsburg’s The Mysteries of Harris Burdick; title: Kelly Jones; title: Chapter 7: Silverstein’s Missing Pieces: Lessons in Love and Incompleteness Matthew F. Pierlott; title: Chapter 8: Is Arthur’s Anger Reasonable?; title: Karin Murris; title: Chapter 9: Gift-Giving, Waiting, and Walking—The (Non-)Reciprocal, (Im-)Possible Apprenticeship of Frog and Toad; title: Peter Costello; title: Part II. Chapter Books; title: Chapter 10: Word Play, Language-Games, and Unfair Labels in Beverly Cleary’s Ramona the Pest; title: Aaron A. Schiller and Denise H. B. Schiller; title: Chapter 11: The things that are not among the things there are to do: Harriet the Spy and Maurice Blanchot’s Passivity; title: Oona Eisenstadt; title: Chapter 12: Intelligence and Utopia in Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH; title: Sarah O’Brien Conly; title: Chapter 13: The Cricket in Times Square: Crickets, Compassion, and the Good Life; title: Court Lewis; title: Chapter 14: Pollyanna, Moral Sainthood, and Childhood Ideals; title: Claire M. Brown; title: Part III. Multiple Avenues of Criticism; title: Chapter 15: The Giving Tree and Environmental Philosophy: Listening to Deep Ecology, Feminism and Trees; title: Ellen Miller; title: Chapter 16: The Giving Tree, Women, and the Great Society; title: Milena Radeva; title: Chapter 17: King of the Wild Things: Children and the Passionate Attachments of the Anthropological Machine; title: Tyson E. Lewis; title: Chapter 18: Lovingly Impolite; title: Lindsay Lerman