When Toys Come Alive: Narratives of Animation, Metamorphosis, and Development Hardcover - 1994
by Lois Rostow Kuznets
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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 ground-breaking 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.
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- Title When Toys Come Alive: Narratives of Animation, Metamorphosis, and Development
- Author Lois Rostow Kuznets
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition, F
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
- Date 1994-05-01
- ISBN 9780300056457 / 0300056451
- Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9.53 x 6.35 x 0.91 in (24.21 x 16.13 x 2.31 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Children - Books and reading, Children's literature - History and criticism
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93040849
- Dewey Decimal Code 809.927
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