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  • Freud in Oz

    At the Intersections of Psychoanalysis and Children’s Literature

    by Kenneth B. Kidd ...
    Children’s literature has spent decades on the psychiatrist’s couch, submitting to psychoanalysis by scores of scholars and popular writers alike. Freud in Oz turns the tables, suggesting that psychoanalysts owe a significant and largely unacknowledged debt to books ostensibly written for children. In fact, Kenneth B. Kidd argues, children’s literature and psychoanalysis have influenced and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Alt Kid Lit

    What Children's Literature Might Be

    Edited by Kenneth B. Kidd, Derritt Mason ...
    Series series Children's Literature Association Series
    Contributions by Kristopher Alexander, Amanda K. Allen, Brianna Anderson, Catherine Burwell, Katharine Capshaw, Negin Dahya, Gabriel Duckels, Paige Gray, Gabrielle Atwood Halko, Natasha Hurley, Kenneth B. Kidd, Erica Law-Montes, Derritt Mason, Brandon Murakami, Tehmina Pirzada, Cristina Rhodes, Cristina Rivera, Jakob Rosendal, TreaAndrea M. Russworm, Vivek Shraya, Victoria Ford Smith, Joshua ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Theory for Beginners

    Children’s Literature as Critical Thought

    by Kenneth B. Kidd ...
    Since its inception in the 1970s, the Philosophy for Children movement (P4C) has affirmed children’s literature as important philosophical work. Theory, meanwhile, has invested in children’s classics, especially Lewis Carroll’s Alice books, and has also developed a literature for beginners that resembles children’s literature in significant ways. Offering a novel take on this phenomenon, Theory ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Queer as Camp

    Essays on Summer, Style, and Sexuality

    by Kenneth B. Kidd, Derritt Mason, Kyle Eveleth, Kathryn Kent, D. Gilson, Charlie Hailey, Ana M. Jimenez-Moreno, Mark Lipton, Chris McGee0, Roderick McGillis1, Kerry Mallan2, Tammy L. Mielke3, Alexis Mitchell4, Flavia Musinsky5, Daniel Mallory Ortberg6, Annebella Pollen7, Andrew Trevarrow8, Paul Venzo9, Joshua Whitehead0 ...
    Named the #1 Bestselling Non-Fiction Title by the Calgary HeraldTo camp means to occupy a place and/or time provisionally or under special circumstances. To camp can also mean to queer. And for many children and young adults, summer camp is a formative experience mixed with homosocial structure and homoerotic longing. In Queer as Camp, editors Kenneth B. Kidd and Derritt Mason curate a collection ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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    by Steven J. Venturino PhD ...
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  • Telling About Society

    by Howard S. Becker ...
    I Remember, one of French writer Georges Perec's most famous pieces, consists of 480 numbered paragraphs—each just a few short lines recalling a memory from his childhood. The work has neither a beginning nor an end. Nor does it contain any analysis. But it nonetheless reveals profound truths about French society during the 1940s and 50s.Taking Perec's book as its cue, Telling About Society ... Read more

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    Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art

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    In Hold It Against Me, Jennifer Doyle explores the relationship between difficulty and emotion in contemporary art, treating emotion as an artist's medium. She encourages readers to examine the ways in which works of art challenge how we experience not only the artist's feelings, but our own. Discussing performance art, painting, and photography, Doyle provides new perspectives on artists ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • RE: Reading the Postmodern

    Canadian Literature and Criticism after Modernism

    Edited by Robert David Stacey ...
    Series series Reappraisals: Canadian Writers
    It would be difficult to exaggerate the worldwide impact of postmodernism on the fields of cultural production and the social sciences over the last quarter century—even if the concept has been understood in various, even contradictory, ways. An interest in postmodernism and postmodernity has been especially strong in Canada, in part thanks to the country’s non-monolithic approach to history and ... Read more

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  • Ugly Feelings

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    Edited by Michael Renov ...
    Series series AFI Film Readers
    A key collection of essays that looks at the specific issues related to the documentary form. Questions addressed include `What is documentary?' and `How fictional is nonfiction?' ... Read more

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  • Aesthetic Approaches to Children's Literature

    An Introduction

    by Maria Nikolajeva ...
    As undergraduate and graduate courses in children's literature become more established and numerous, there is an intense need for a textbook that offers aesthetic rather than educational approaches to children's literature. This work fills that void by providing students of children's literature with a comprehensible and easy-to-use analytical tool kit, showing through concrete demonstration how ... Read more

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