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Wild Things: Children's Culture and Ecocriticism

Wild Things: Children's Culture and Ecocriticism

Dobrin, Sidney I.

Paperback

Series: Landscapes of Childhood

Literary CriticismEnvironmental StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0814330282
ISBN13: 9780814330289
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: May 11 2004
Pages: 308
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.04
Language: English

Today's young children are occupied with numerous activities taking place in settings that are isolated from nature or merely simulations of the earth's natural environment. As a result, unless they receive appropriate nature education, many children may never develop a familiarity with and positive attitudes toward the natural world that are so crucial to its preservation. Wild Things: Children's Culture, Ecocriticism examines the ways in which literature, media, and other cultural forms for young people address nature, place, and ecology.

Studies in children's culture and ecocriticism have been largely separate enterprises; Wild Things is the first book to conjoin the two fields. The book provides scholars and teachers with in-depth discussion of particular texts as well as larger historical patterns and theoretical paradigms. Essays focus on classic literary works such as Charlotte's Web and The Lorax as well as series fiction, nature magazines, environmental music and videos, the Muppets and other Jim Henson productions, and Disney's latest theme park, Animal Kingdom. Affording the reader a return to the wild places of childhood--both real and imagined--Wild Things is a first-class exploration of the dimensions used to teach children about ecological systems and the natural world that surrounds them.

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