1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910697473003321

Autore

Rosenberry D. O

Titolo

Malformed frogs in Minnesota [[electronic resource] ] : an update / / [Donald O. Rosenberry]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Reston, Va.] : , : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, , [2001]

Descrizione fisica

4 unnumbered pages : digital, PDF file

Collana

USGS fact sheet ; ; 043-01

Soggetti

Frogs - Abnormalities - Minnesota

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on Aug. 25, 2008).

"May 2001."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910953440303321

Autore

Pugh Tison

Titolo

Innocence, heterosexuality, and the queerness of children's literature / / Tison Pugh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-82915-6

1-136-82916-4

1-283-04054-9

9786613040541

0-203-83141-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 p.)

Collana

Children's literature and culture

Disciplina

823.0099282

Soggetti

Children's stories, English - History and criticism

Children's stories, American - History and criticism

Sex in literature

Heterosexism in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Notes on the Text; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children's Litereature; Chapter One: "There lived in the Land of Oz two queerly made men": Queer Utopianism and Antisocial Eroticism in L. Frank Baum's Oz Books; Chapter Two: Eternal Childhood, Taming Tomboyism, and Equine Erotic Triangles in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House Series; Chapter Three: Erotic Heroism, Redemptive Teen Sexuality, and the Queer Republic of Heaven in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials

Chapter Four: Dumbledore's Queer Ghost: Homosexuality and Its Heterosexual Afterlives in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter NovelsChapter Five: "What, Then, Does Beatrice Mean?": Hermaphroditic Gender, Predatory Heterosexuality, and Promiscuous Allusions in Daniel Handler / Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events; Chapter Six: Excremental Eroticism, Carnivalesque Desires, and Gross Adolescence in Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl; Chapter Seven: Masochistic Abstinence,



Bug Chasing, and the Erotic Death Drive in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Series

Conclusion Homosexuality and the End of Innocence in David Levithan's Boy Meets BoyNotes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children's Literature examines distinguished classics of children's literature both old and new-including L. Frank Baum's Oz books, Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series, J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, and Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series-to explore the queer tensions between innocence and heterosexuality within their pages. Pugh argues that children cannot retain their innocence of sexuality while learning about normative hetero