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Title: The Case of Peter Pan: Or the Impossibility of Children's Fiction (New Cultural Studies Series) by Jacqueline Rose ISBN: 0-8122-1435-8 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 1 (5 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Deocorum Please
Comment: Jacqueline Rose has done some serious scholarship in literary criticism, but this work is dubious, at best. I'm not sure why she misses the mark so poorly in this extended essay on the link between children's fiction and the publishing industry. But the work is very un-focused and rather trite. The approach is a bit dated, and I can imagine that perhaps the book is more an extended discourse on the theoretical apparatus that she seems to be enamored with rather than a solid interpretation of Peter Pan. The book is really an odd one, and it left me feeling so disgusted that I did not wish to finish the tome. Although, the other reviewers are a bit too vituperative in their critique, this book really strikes me as somewhat immature.
Rating: 1
Summary: Odd Treatment of Old Genre
Comment: Rose's analysis is dubious. She attempts to make the claim that Barrie created a new genre of fantasy with the publication of Peter Pan. The problem is that Barrie's books about Peter Pan are actually components of a genre well-studied and documented for hundreds of years. Even a cursory read of scholarship in folklore would have clearly demonstrated to Rose that Peter Pan is a Marchen, a genre of folklore in which a poor, obscure hero is called to complete acts of bravery in a land of fantasy and magic. There are numerous other problems with her analysis. Even reading this study as an essay on contemporary social issues is a confusing exercise, at best, because Rose's style tends to obfuscate rather than to provide any semblance of clarity. Sorry to be so critical of literary criticism, but incoherence and bad writing simply do not belong in scholarly discourse.
Rating: 1
Summary: Worst Book Ever
Comment: I am a high school student and I am not ashamed to say that i have an affinity for children's literature, particularly english, such as Alice in Wonderland, Harry Potter (all of them), and especially PETER PAN. This literature contains a magic that this author proceeds to bash at every chance she gets. I mean, are children supposed to read about oil spills and war? Preserve the magic of childhood people!
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Title: J.M. Barrie & the Lost Boys by Andrew Birkin ISBN: 0300098227 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction of Childhood (The Edge, Critical Studies in Educational Theory) by Shirley R. Steinberg, Joe L. Kincheloe ISBN: 081332310X Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1997 List Price(USD): $34.00 |
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Title: From Mouse to Mermaid: The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture by Elizabeth Bell, Lynda Haas, Laura Sells ISBN: 0253209781 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Now or Neverland: Peter Pan and the Myth of Eternal Youth : A Psychological Perspective on a Cultural Icon (Studies in Jungian Psychology, 82) by Ann Yeoman ISBN: 091912383X Publisher: Inner City Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Freud and the Non-European by Edward W. Said, Christopher Bollas, Jacquline Rose, Jacqueline Rose ISBN: 1859845002 Publisher: Verso Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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