Name: When Toys Come Alive (en Inglés)
SKU: 4928802
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Author: Lois Rostow Kuznets

portada When Toys Come Alive (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Yale University Press

Autor

Lois Rostow Kuznets

Año

1994

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

272

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN

0300056451

ISBN13

9780300056457

N° edición

Categorías

Literatura: historia y crítica

When Toys Come Alive (en Inglés)

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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 groundbreaking 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.