Places Of Childhood Fancy

Author : Michael G. Cornelius,Marybeth Ragsdale-Richards
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476686585

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Places of Childhood Fancy by Michael G. Cornelius,Marybeth Ragsdale-Richards Pdf

Many of us grew up exploring fascinating worlds--in books, films, and, most importantly, our imaginations--places filled with mythological characters and magical landscapes where we had stunning experiences punctuated by the harmless pleasures that any child's mind can conjure. These worlds sometimes end up in our childhood fictions, which have in turn shaped countless imaginations and childhood adventures. The essays in this book attempt to comprehend the worlds of children's progressive fiction--from how they are created to how they affect readers. This book explores what happens when speculative genres (fantasy, horror, and science fiction) and imaginative spaces collide headlong with the realities and surrealities of modern childhood. It moves back and forth between Oz, Wonderland, Redwall and Fear Street, and explores series such as Nancy Drew, Inkheart, The Mortal Instruments, the Miss Peregrine series and more. Many of these works feature children who must save the day--to stop the bad guy, kill the monster, complete the quest and rescue adults--leading us to wonder if fantastic spaces in children's progressive fiction are really helping kids prepare to save the world rather than helping them temporarily escape it.

Author : Michael G. Cornelius,Marybeth Ragsdale-Richards
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476646718

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Places of Childhood Fancy by Michael G. Cornelius,Marybeth Ragsdale-Richards Pdf

Many of us grew up exploring fascinating worlds--in books, films, and, most importantly, our imaginations--places filled with mythological characters and magical landscapes where we had stunning experiences punctuated by the harmless pleasures that any child's mind can conjure. These worlds sometimes end up in our childhood fictions, which have in turn shaped countless imaginations and childhood adventures. The essays in this book attempt to comprehend the worlds of children's progressive fiction--from how they are created to how they affect readers. This book explores what happens when speculative genres (fantasy, horror, and science fiction) and imaginative spaces collide headlong with the realities and surrealities of modern childhood. It moves back and forth between Oz, Wonderland, Redwall and Fear Street, and explores series such as Nancy Drew, Inkheart, The Mortal Instruments, the Miss Peregrine series and more. Many of these works feature children who must save the day--to stop the bad guy, kill the monster, complete the quest and rescue adults--leading us to wonder if fantastic spaces in children's progressive fiction are really helping kids prepare to save the world rather than helping them temporarily escape it.

Author : James Sully
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Child development
ISBN : UOM:39015062755130

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Children's Ways : Being Selections from the Author's "Studies of Childhood," by James Sully Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Poetry of places
ISBN : PRNC:32101063578403

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Poems of Places: England and Wales by Anonim Pdf

Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015059901473

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Poems of Places Oceana 1 V.; England 4; Scotland 3 V: Iceland, Switzerland, Greece, Russia, Asia, 3 America 5 by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Pdf

Author : Adam White
Publisher : Springer
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319538594

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John Clare's Romanticism by Adam White Pdf

This book offers a major reassessment of John Clare’s poetry and his position in the Romantic canon. Alert to Clare’s knowledge of the work of his Romantic contemporaries and near contemporaries, it puts forward the first extended series of comparisons of Clare’s poetry with texts we now think of as defining the period – in particular poems by Robert Burns, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, and John Keats. It makes fully evident Clare’s original contribution to the aesthetic culture of the age by analysing how he explores a wide range of concerns and preoccupations which are central to, and especially privileged in, Romantic-period poetics, including ‘fancy’, the sublime, childhood, ruins, joy, ‘poesy’, and a love lyric marked by a peculiar self-consciousness about sincere expression. At the heart of this book is the claim that the hitherto under-scrutinised subjective stances, transcendent modes, and abstract qualities of Clare’s lyric poetry situate him firmly within, and as fundamentally part of, Romanticism, at the same time as his writing constitutes a distinctive contribution to one of the most fascinating eras of English literature.

Author : Joseph Henry Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Latin language
ISBN : HARVARD:32044097074074

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A Shorter Preparatory Course of Latin Prose by Joseph Henry Allen Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Amusements
ISBN : UOM:39015033752430

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Children's Environments by Anonim Pdf

Author : Roger Hart
Publisher : Halsted Press
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015020433473

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Children's Experience of Place by Roger Hart Pdf

Author : David Sobel
Publisher : Zephyr Press (AZ)
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Children's playhouses
ISBN : UCSC:32106014290305

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Children's Special Places by David Sobel Pdf

An examination of the secret world of children that shows how important special places are to a child's development. From the ages of five to twelve, the middle years of childhood, young people explore their surroundings and find or construct private spaces. In these secret places, children develop and control environments of their own and enjoy freedom from the rules of the adult world. Children's Special Places enters these hidden worlds, reveals their importance to children's development and emotional health, and shows educators, parents, and other adults how they can foster a bond between young people and nature that is important to maturation. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : George Frederic Still
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Children
ISBN : CHI:087130399

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Common Disorders and Diseases of Childhood by George Frederic Still Pdf

Author : Sir George Frederic Still
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:24503326793

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Common disorders and diseases of childhood by Sir George Frederic Still Pdf

Author : Golden childhood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590423560

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The sunbeam story book, the 'Golden childhood' vol. for Christmas, 1879 by Golden childhood Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555043855

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Golden childhood; or, The child's own annual of pictures, poetry and music [afterw.] Merry sunbeams [afterw.] Golden childhood by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gary Paul Nabhan
Publisher : Beacon Press (MA)
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39015032978432

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The Geography of Childhood by Gary Paul Nabhan Pdf

"In this unique collaboration, naturalists Gary Nabhan and Stephen Trimble investigate how children come to care deeply about the natural world. They ask searching questions about what may happen to children denied exposure to wild places - a reality for more children today than at any time in human history." "The authors remember pivotal events in their own childhood that led each to a life-long relationship with the land: Nabhan's wanderings in the wasteland of steel mills and power plants of Gary, Indiana, and in the Indiana Dunes; Trimble's travels in the West with a geologist father. They tell stories of children learning about wild places and creatures in settings ranging from cities and suburbs to isolated Nevada sheep ranches to Native American communities in the Southwest and Mexico." "The Geography of Childhood draws insights from fields as various as evolutionary biology, child psychology, education, and ethnography. The book urges adults to rethink our children's contact with nature. Small children have less need for large-scale wilderness than for a garden, gully, or field to create a crucial tie to the natural world. Nabhan suggests that traditional wilderness-oriented rites of passage may help cure the alienation of adolescence: "Those who as adolescents fail to pass through such rites remain in an arrested state of immaturity for the remainder of their lives." Trimble's fatherhood leads him to question how we grant different freedoms to girls and boys in their exploration of nature - and how this bias powerfully affects adult lives. Both authors return to their experiences with indigenous peoples to show how nature is taught and wilderness understood in cultures historically grounded outside of America's cities and suburbs." "The Geography of Childhood makes clear how human growth remains rooted, as it always has, both in childhood and in wild landscapes. It is an essential book for all parents and teachers who wonder what our children may miss if they never experience local wildlife or wild landscapes."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved