The Fabulous Journeys of Alice and Pinocchio
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-6543-6 (ISBN)
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871) and Carlo Collodi's Le Avventure di Pinocchio (1883) are among the most influential classics of children's literature. Firmly rooted in their respective British and Italian national cultures, the Alice and Pinocchio stories connected to a worldwide audience almost like folktales and fairy tales and have become fixtures of postmodernism.
Although they come from radically different political and social backgrounds, the texts share surprising similarities. This comparative reading explores their imagery and history, and discusses them in the broader context of British and Italian children's stories.
Laura Tosi is a professor of English literature at the University Ca’ Foscari in Venice, Italy. Her research is in Elizabethan drama and children’s literature. She has published works on literary fairy tales and adaptation, and co-edited the first history of English-language children’s literature written in Italian. Peter Hunt is a professor emeritus of English and children’s literature at Cardiff University, UK. He has lectured at more than 150 universities and colleges in 23 countries, and has produced 30 books and 500 papers and reviews on the subject.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Part One. Theories, Choices and Contexts
1. Alice Meets Pinocchio: Parallel Readings, National Stereotypes and Cultural Associations
2. Books, Canons and Characters: Pinocchio in Wonderland and Alice in Tuscany
3. Carlo and Charles: Italy in the Age of Pinocchio, England in the Age of Alice
Part Two. Origins: Folktale, Fairy-Tale and Fantasy
deleteTraditions
4. Pinocchio as fiaba, Alice as Fairy-Tale: Folktale and Fairy-Tale Traditions
5. Fantasy and Form in Alice and Pinocchio
Part Three. New Journeys: Postmodernist
deleteExperiments with Alice and Pinocchio and Parallel Genre Readings in Empire Fictions
6. The Postmodernist Journeys of Alice and Pinocchio: Adventures in Transnational and Transtextual Identities
7. Childhood, School and Empire in Italy and the UK: Hughes and De Amicis, Henty and Salgari
Appendix: “Strange Meeting in Wonder-Tuscany” by Peter Hunt
Chapter Notes
Works Cited
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 07.01.2018 |
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Reihe/Serie | Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy |
Zusatzinfo | appendix, notes, bibliography, index |
Verlagsort | Jefferson, NC |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 313 g |
Themenwelt | Kinder- / Jugendbuch |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
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ISBN-10 | 1-4766-6543-5 / 1476665435 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4766-6543-6 / 9781476665436 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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