
Wild Things
Children's Culture and Ecocriticism
Wayne State University Press
Published on 30. April 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-8143-3028-9 (ISBN)
Description
Today's children are occupied with activities taking place in settings that are isolated from nature or are 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 and 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 Chariotte'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 explorat
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Detroit, MI
United States
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Children/juvenile
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
466 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8143-3028-9 (9780814330289)
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Sidney I. Dobrin is associate professor of English and director of Writing Programs at University of Florida. Kenneth B. Kidd is assistant professor of English at the University of Florida. He is the author of Making American Boys: Boyology and the Feral Tale, forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press.