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- catalog abstract "Since the eighteenth century, toys have had an important place in European and American stories written for children and adults, often taking on a secret, sensual, even carnivalesque life of their own. In this ground-breaking work, Lois Rostow Kuznets studies the role of toy characters in works ranging from older classics like Pinocchio, Winnie the Pooh, and The Velveteen Rabbit, through modern texts like The Mouse and His Child and the popular comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, to the latest science fiction featuring robots and cyborgs. Using a variety of intertextual critical approaches, including feminist theory, neo-Freudian Winnicott play analysis, structuralism, and neo-Marxism, Kuznets focuses on how toy characters, like children's play, can be associated with deep human needs, desires, and fears. Anxiety about being "real"--An autonomous subject rather than an object - permeates many of the texts Kuznets analyzes. Toy fantasies also raise existential issues of power: what it means either to dominate or to be dominated by more powerful beings, and what dangers might lie in the transformation of a toy into a living being - an act of human creativity that represents a challenge to divine creation. Kuznets concludes that although many of these texts subvert conformity on an individual level, they also tend to evoke a romantic nostalgia that supports the underlying values and hierarchies of a patriarchal society.".
- catalog contributor b5729362.
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description "An introduction to my world of literary toys -- Toys : their first ten thousand years -- On the couch with Calvin, Hobbes, and Winnie the Pooh -- Coming out in flesh and blood -- Where have all the young men gone? -- The doll connection -- Magic settings, transitional space -- The animal-toy league -- Beyond the last visible toy -- Life(size) endowments : monsters, automata, robots, cyborgs.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Kuznets concludes that although many of these texts subvert conformity on an individual level, they also tend to evoke a romantic nostalgia that supports the underlying values and hierarchies of a patriarchal society.".
- catalog description "Since the eighteenth century, toys have had an important place in European and American stories written for children and adults, often taking on a secret, sensual, even carnivalesque life of their own. In this ground-breaking work, Lois Rostow Kuznets studies the role of toy characters in works ranging from older classics like Pinocchio, Winnie the Pooh, and The Velveteen Rabbit, through modern texts like The Mouse and His Child and the popular comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, to the latest science fiction featuring robots and cyborgs.".
- catalog description "Using a variety of intertextual critical approaches, including feminist theory, neo-Freudian Winnicott play analysis, structuralism, and neo-Marxism, Kuznets focuses on how toy characters, like children's play, can be associated with deep human needs, desires, and fears. Anxiety about being "real"--An autonomous subject rather than an object - permeates many of the texts Kuznets analyzes. Toy fantasies also raise existential issues of power: what it means either to dominate or to be dominated by more powerful beings, and what dangers might lie in the transformation of a toy into a living being - an act of human creativity that represents a challenge to divine creation.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 257 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0300056451".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Haven : Yale University Press,".
- catalog subject "809/.927 20".
- catalog subject "Children Books and reading.".
- catalog subject "Children's literature History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Fantasy literature History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Metamorphosis in literature.".
- catalog subject "PN56.M53 K89 1994".
- catalog subject "Toys in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "An introduction to my world of literary toys -- Toys : their first ten thousand years -- On the couch with Calvin, Hobbes, and Winnie the Pooh -- Coming out in flesh and blood -- Where have all the young men gone? -- The doll connection -- Magic settings, transitional space -- The animal-toy league -- Beyond the last visible toy -- Life(size) endowments : monsters, automata, robots, cyborgs.".
- catalog title "When toys come alive : narratives of animation, metamorphosis, and development / Lois Rostow Kuznets.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".