1978, ISBN: 0674291654

[EAN: 9780674291652], New book, [SC: 0.0], [PU: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass], Paperback. Roger Sale invites us to discover anew some of the great works of children's literat… More...

[EAN: 9780674291652], New book, [SC: 0.0], [PU: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass], Paperback. Roger Sale invites us to discover anew some of the great works of children's literature, works that have been read and loved but seldom given the benefit of serious literary assessment. It takes a critic of special gifts-receptiveness, discrimination, clarity of perception, independence of judgment-to discuss these books as illuminatingly as Sale does.This is not a survey but a very personal book: Sale writes about stories and books with which he feels an imaginative sympathy. As it happens, they include a great many of the classic children's texts, works as disparate as "Beauty and the Beast" and Alice, The Wind in the Willows and Babar, "The Snow Queen" and Peter Rabbit, the Jungle Book and the Oz books. He conveys a fresh sense of what is special and memorable about each of them.While avoiding conventional literary history, he sketches the circumstances of the author's life when they provide insight into the works. Unlike Bettelheim and others, Sale is not concerned with the "uses" of children's literature. He writes for adults, with the conviction that adults can find delight in these books. Many already do, and perhaps with his stimulus, many more will. Serious literary criticism of children's books is so rare that Roger Sale's entry is news; what makes it good news is that Sale has no axe to grind - the books' effect on children is incidental for him to their success as books. Rereading childhood favorites to clear away memories and precepts, he succumbed again to Dr. Seuss' Five Hundred Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins ("How wonderful, when things just happened to happen, to get not only from one to two. . . but to get back home again"), saw more than he had in de Brunhoff's Babar books, and resisted A.A. Milne's stories of Christopher Robin - to the indignation of his undergraduate students, unreconciled to leaving the Forest. Separate, linked essays follow, at once personal and closely analytical, on fairy tales, oral and written; on the role of talking animals; on nonrealistic latter-day works from the two Alices to Beatrix Potter, Kenneth Grahame, Kipling's Jungle Books and Kim, the Oz books, and, for final contrast, Walter Brooks' stories of Freddy the pig and E.B. White's Charlotte's Web. Sale disputes Bettelheim's view of fairy tales, in The Uses of Enchantment, as aids to maturation. The task with the two Alices, he contends - challenging the exegetes - "is to stick close to the surface of what is presented and to read that surface hard" (which yields, here, a brilliant interpretation of the White Queen). He looks into Beatrix Potter's life, and Kenneth Grahame's and Kipling's, to sort out their intentions: Kim "is profligate, a huge mural of all that Kipling has known and cared about India"; The Wind in the Willows is "the work of a man becoming increasingly miserable" - thus Mole's delight in discovering Rat's river and, in turn, Rat's praise of Mole's "poor, cold little" home. Sale writes with a sensitivity and acuity that will draw readers back or, with equal validity, draw them on. (Kirkus Reviews) Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability., Books<

ISBN: 9780674291652

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Fairy Tales After From Snow White To E B White Paper, DE, [SC: 0.00], Neuware, gewerbliches Angebot, [GW: 219g], Banküberweisung, PayPal, Skrill/Moneybookers, Internationaler Versand, [PU: Harvard University Press]<