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050 0 0 _aPR 830 .C513
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100 1 _aElick, Catherine L.
245 1 0 _aTalking animals in children's fiction :
_ba critical study /
_cCatherine L. Elick.
264 1 _aJefferson, North Carolina :
_bMcFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
_c2015
300 _ax, 258 pages ;
_c23 cm
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
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_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _a"Talking-animal tales have conveyed anticruelty messages since the 18th-century beginnings of children's literature. Beginning with the ideas of literary theorist Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin, this book examines ways in which animal characters gain an aura of authority through using language and then participate in reversals of power"--
_cProvided by publisher.
505 0 0 _tEntering the wonderland of 'what if': Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) --
_tContested borders: Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows (1908) --
_tAdvocating for animals: Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle series (1920-1952) --
_tExploring the mystery of shared origins : P.L. Travers's Mary Poppins Series (1934-1988) --
_tA revisionist history of revolutionary America: Robert Lawson's Ben and Me (1939) --
_tFeasting at the feet of St. Francis: Robert Lawson's Rabbit Hill (1944) --
_tThe animal in us: E.B. White's Stuart Little (1945) --
_tSowing the good word: E.B. White's Charlotte's Web (1952) --
_tNew York's Times Square as carnival market square: George Selden's The Cricket in Times Square (1960) --
_tEscaping the rat race: Robert C. O'Brien's Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (1971).
650 0 _aAnimals in literature.
650 0 _aAnthropomorphism in literature.
650 0 _aChildren's stories, English
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aChildren's stories, American
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aEnglish fiction
_y20th century
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aAmerican fiction
_y20th century
_xHistory and criticism.
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