The Nimble Reader: Literary Theory and Children's Literature

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Practical criticism of three "classic" or soon-to-be-classic children's books - Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, E. B. White's Charlotte's Web, and Chris Van Allsburgh's The Mysteries of Harris Burdick - provides the substance of the Nimble Reader. McGillis employs these texts as well as others to explain the basic tenets and processes of criticism and to discuss criticism's usefulness in enhancing our understanding of children's literature. He skillfully balances theoretical discussions of various ...
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Practical criticism of three "classic" or soon-to-be-classic children's books - Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, E. B. White's Charlotte's Web, and Chris Van Allsburgh's The Mysteries of Harris Burdick - provides the substance of the Nimble Reader. McGillis employs these texts as well as others to explain the basic tenets and processes of criticism and to discuss criticism's usefulness in enhancing our understanding of children's literature. He skillfully balances theoretical discussions of various types of criticism - archetypal, psycho-analytical, political, structuralist, poststructuralist, reader response, and the New Criticism - with practical analysis of his primary texts and other works. With his engaging choice of texts, emphasis on practical criticism, and inclusion of bibliographies of both children's literature and works on literary theory and criticism, McGillis has succeeded in producing a dual-purpose volume: The Nimble Reader not only demonstrates a new approach to children's literature as a serious object of study but also represents one of the clearest presentations of literary theory published to date.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780805790337
  • Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Company, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 1/28/1996
  • Pages: 230
  • Product dimensions: 5.75 (w) x 8.76 (h) x 0.95 (d)

Table of Contents

Preface
1 Beginnings 1
2 The Science of Literature: Formalism and the New Criticism 27
3 The Totality of Literature: Myth and Archetype 49
4 Journey to the Interior: Psychoanalytic Criticism 75
5 Class Action: Politics and Critical Practice 102
6 Constructivist Reading: The Structuralist Activity 129
7 Criticism at Work and at Play: Poststructuralism 152
8 Investigating the Reading Subject: Response Criticism 177
9 A Beginning Again 201
Children's Books Cited 207
Anthologies of Children's Literature Cited 211
Works of Literary Theory and Criticism Cited 213
Index 223
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