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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816732803321

Autore

Kidd Kenneth B

Titolo

Freud in Oz [[electronic resource] ] : at the intersections of psychoanalysis and children's literature / / Kenneth B. Kidd

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2011

ISBN

1-4529-4770-8

0-8166-7869-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 p.)

Disciplina

809/.89282

Soggetti

Children's stories, English - History and criticism

Children's stories, American - History and criticism

Psychoanalysis and literature

Children in literature

Child psychology in literature

Psychology in literature

Young adult fiction, English - History and criticism

Young adult fiction, American - History and criticism

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

Introduction: reopening the case of Peter Pan -- Kids, fairy tales, and the uses of enchantment -- Child analysis, play, and the golden age of Pooh -- Three case histories: Alice, Peter Pan, and OZ -- Maurice Sendak and picturebook psychology -- "A case history of us all": the adolescent novel before and after Salinger -- T is for trauma: the children's literature of atrocity.

Sommario/riassunto

Shows how the acceptance of psychoanalysis owes a notable debt to the rise of  "kid lit"