Lovingly impolite / Heidegger, Winnicott, and The Velveteen Rabbit : anxiety, toys, and the drama of metaphysics / Lindsay Lerman. Slave morality in The Rainbow Fish / Claudia Mills -- Absolutely positively feeling that way and more : paradoxes of fiction and Judith Viorst's Alexander stories / Dina Mendonc̀§a -- Are You My Mother? Finding the self in (m)others / Licia Carlson -- Horton hears Badiou! : Ethics and an understanding of Dr. Seuss's Horton Hears a Who! / Carl F. Miller -- Mapping Chris Van Allsburg's The Mysteries of Harris Burdick / Kelly Jones -- Silverstein's missing pieces : lessons in love and incompleteness / Matthew F. Pierlott -- Is Arthur's anger reasonable? / Karin Murris -- Gift-giving, waiting, and walking : the (non-)reciprocal, (im-)possible apprenticeship of frog and toad / Peter R. Costello -- Chapter books. Word play, language-games, and unfair labels in Beverly Cleary's Ramona the Pest / Aaron Allen Schiller, Denise H.B. Schiller -- Things that are not among the things there are to do : Harriet the spy and Maurice Blanchot's passivity / Oona Eisenstadt -- Intelligence and utopia in Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH / Sarah O'Brien Conly -- The Cricket in Times Square : crickets, compassion, and the good life / Court Lewis -- Pollyanna, moral sainthood, and childhood ideals / Claire M. Brown -- Multiple avenues of criticism. The Giving Tree and environmental philosophy : listening to deep ecology, feminism, and trees / Ellen Miller -- The Giving Tree, women, and the great society / Milena Radeva -- King of the wild things : children and the passionate attachments of the anthropological machine / Tyson E. Lewis -- Lovingly impolite / Lindsay Lerman.
Summary:
"This book seeks to join the ongoing, interdisciplinary approach to children's literature by means of sustained readings of individual texts by means of important works in the history of philosophy. Its inclusion of authors from both various departments--philosophy, literature, religion, and education--and various countries is an attempt to show how traditional boundaries between disciplines might become more permeable and how philosophy offers important insights to this interdisciplinary, critical conversation"--provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.