Innocence, heterosexuality, and the queerness of children's literature / / Tison Pugh
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| Autore: |
Pugh Tison
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| Titolo: |
Innocence, heterosexuality, and the queerness of children's literature / / Tison Pugh
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| Pubblicazione: | New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (223 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 823.0099282 |
| Soggetto topico: | Children's stories, English - History and criticism |
| Children's stories, American - History and criticism | |
| Sex in literature | |
| Heterosexism in literature | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Innocence, heterosexuality, and the queerness of children's literature |
| ISBN: | 1-136-82915-6 |
| 1-136-82916-4 | |
| 1-283-04054-9 | |
| 9786613040541 | |
| 0-203-83141-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910953440303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Children's literature and culture.