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Children's literature and the avant-garde /

This chapter addresses what an avant-garde for children might look like, and what it might do. It is called "Surrealism for Children: Paradoxes and Possibilities" because the very notion of an avant-garde for children strikes the author as both paradoxical and not, and as both possible and...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Druker, Elina, 1970- (Éditeur intellectuel), Kümmerling-Meibauer, Bettina (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015]
Collection:Children's literature, culture, and cognition ; v. 5.
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Résumé:This chapter addresses what an avant-garde for children might look like, and what it might do. It is called "Surrealism for Children: Paradoxes and Possibilities" because the very notion of an avant-garde for children strikes the author as both paradoxical and not, and as both possible and impossible. In making this claim, the author argues with - and revises - his own analysis in The Avant-Garde and American Postmodernity: Small Incisive Shocks (2002), which took for granted that an avant-garde for children was both possible and critically viable. What he once accepted as a certainty, he now
Description matérielle:1 online resource
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027268389
902726838X
ISSN:2212-9006 ;