Out of this World: Why Literature Matters to GirlsThe author analyzes the way the girls discuss pleasure in becoming "the eye" of the reader, use film to decode the genres of literature, master forms such as fantasy and Gothic, describe the differences between reading and viewing films, and identify only with animal rather than human characters. Blackford intertwines the vivid voices of her girl respondents with her own story of moving beyond her feminist and multicultural assumptions of how children are shaped by the stories we tell in literature. This breakthrough text presents surprising findings about how girls appreciate literature and what they enjoy about reading. |
Contents
Literature Vive la Différence | 1 |
Seeing and Imagining the Text | 16 |
Going OffWorld for Insight | 30 |
Its Like a Fantasy World Gender and Form | 42 |
The Genre of Identity Suspense Action Quest and Gothic Form | 63 |
Cherchez la Femme The Problem of Versimilitude | 85 |
Film and Reelism | 102 |
Beauty in the Beast The Power of Metamorphosis | 116 |
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Out of this World: Why Literature Matters to Girls Holly Virginia Blackford No preview available - 2004 |
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