Childhood Hermeneutics and the Uniqueness of the Aesthetic Reading of Childrens Lit

Encyclopaideia – Journal of Phenomenology and Education. Vol.28 no.69 (2024), 73–84 ISSN 1825-8670 Essays– peer-reviewed https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1825-8670/18522Childhood hermeneutics and uniqueness of the aesthetic reading of children's literatureStefania Carioli— Link Campus University (Italy)— Contact: s.carioli@unilink.it ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2697-2997 Stefania Carioli is Associate Professor of History of Pedagogy and Education at Link Campus University, Department of...

Modernizing a Fairy Tale For Film and Television

One of the most challenging parts of being a writer is constantly coming up with original ideas. You can feel extra pressure to be inventive and develop your voice. There are many ways to shake these pressurized slumps, but I find that the best way is to work on an adaptation. You get the backbone of the story, and you can flesh the rest of the original parts out on your own, allowing you the freedom to dream big. Still, it's not easy getting your hands on IP. That's where the public domain c...

Priscilla review - Bluebeard suede shoes

Clip source: Priscilla review - Bluebeard suede shoes Priscilla review - Bluebeard suede shoesSofia Coppola on whatever happened to the teenage dreamby Hugh Barnes Tuesday, 02 January 2024 Sofia Coppola knows a thing or two about teenage girldom. Like many of her other characters – in The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation, Somewhere and Marie Antoinette – the subject of her latest film, Priscilla Presley, is an ingenue living in a gilded cage and surrounded by lavish boredom. It hardly mat...

Cinderella

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Cinderella (thing) See all of Cinderella, there are 9 more in this node. (thing) by SophiesCat Fri Feb 02 2001 at 17:51:53 There are many versions of Cinderella, this version is a fairly cheery and happy one, some of the other versions have the stepsisters cutting parts of their feet off in order to try and fit into the glass slipper. Once there was a gentleman who married, for his second wife, the proudest and most haughty woma...

Struwwelpeter

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Struwwelpeter (thing) by e2reneta Thu Jun 08 2000 at 16:44:59 AKA Struwwelpeter: oder lustige Geschichten und drollige bilder fur Kinder von 3-6 Jahren.Heinrich Hoffman's popular and influential book of cautionary tales about children who misbehave. Translated in English as Slovenly Peter or Shockheaded Peter, the book features charming pictures of children meeting gruesome ends as they play with matches, torture animals, or sho...

Cruel Frederick

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 The Story of Cruel Frederick (thing) See all of The Story of Cruel Frederick, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by e2reneta Thu Aug 17 2000 at 0:56:09 The first story in Hoffman's Struwwelpeter. This Frederick! this Frederick! A naughty, wicked boy was he; He caught the flies, poor little things, And then tore off their tiny wings; He killed the birds, and broke the chairs, And threw the kitten...

Alice in Wonderland Chapter Three Creaticely Revised

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Alice in Wonderland (idea) See all of Alice in Wonderland, there are 2 more in this node. See also: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (idea) by Azound Wed Jun 28 2000 at 8:38:47 Remake of Chapter VIII The Sea in the Puddle A LARGE ROSE-TREE stood near the entrance of the garden: the roses on it were white. Alice took a step towards the tree, and noticed a puddle to the side of it. She stepped into the puddle, and felt the gro...

Lir Children analysis by wavelength.ai

Z prompts Wavelength.ai as follows, regarding the story of the Children of Lir, an Irish mythical story. Give an interpretation of that story based on literary symbolism, especially surrounding the birds (swans or otherwise) and their possible symbolic meaning in this story’s context. From wavelength.ai: In this story, the birds, specifically the swans, hold significant symbolic meaning. They represent transformation, endurance, and the longing for freedom and reunion. The swans' transforma...

On Peter Pan

Scene from Mabou Mines Peter and Wendy with Karen Kandel. Photograph taken by Richard Termine.I remember reading Peter Pan as a kid, a version based on the 1953 Disney movie—based on J. M. Barrie’s story. It turned me on. I’m six or seven, and I’m flipping through the pages, and there’s a picture of Peter with his arms crossed and his back to Wendy. He’s angry with her for some reason, and it turned me on. The words, the image, the anger? All of it, some kind of thrill-ball a kid has no words...

Winnie The Pooh Horror Movie

Skip to content  Home / Entertainment / How To Watch Winnie The Pooh Horror Movie advertisement continue reading below Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Pinterest How To Watch Winnie The Pooh Horror Movie Published: September 16, 2023 Overview of the Winnie the Pooh Hor...

Why Does Hollywood Keep Returning to Peter Pan?

As I suffered through David Lowery’s Peter Pan & Wendy on Disney+, I kept wondering what it is about this character that has kept him alive for more than a century. Hell, how about just the past 30 or so years? Every cinematic adaptation of J.M. Barrie’s children’s tale in those years has been a critical and commercial disaster. Why do we keep going back to this well? Although this latest adaptation is mostly a retread that adds little to the pantheon of Pans, it does offer—inadvertent...

Rift Valley

Rift Valley SimpCSourceURL: https://refind.com/links/141565788?via=refind RefindWe are restless even in death. Entombed in stone, our most distant ancestors still travel along Earth’s subterranean passageways. One of them, a man in his 20s, began his journey around 230,000 years ago after collapsing into marshland on the lush edge of a river delta feeding a vast lake in East Africa’s Rift Valley. He became the earth in which he lay as nutrients leached from his body and his bone minerali...

Alice, Victorian Rebel

Tenniel, illus. from Alice in WonderlandNote: If you wish to receive, via e-mail, (1) my weekly newsletter or (2) daily copies of these posts, notify me at rrbates1951 at gmail dot com and I will send it/them to you. I promise not to share your e-mail address with anyone. To unsubscribe, send me a follow-up email.Friday – Lewis Carroll’s BirthdayIn honor of Lewis Carroll’s birthday—he was born on January 27, 1832—I repost an essay I wrote nine years ago when I was teaching the Alice books in ...

Best Episodes of Abbott Elementary so far

Is it too soon to pick the best episodes of "Abbott Elementary," which has been on the air for just over a year? It wasn’t too soon to put it on every end of year list IndieWire put together, so we say no. On December 7, 2021, ABC premiered the pilot of Quinta Brunson’s elementary school mockumentary, about a spirited and underfunded Philadelphia public school. Brunson stars as second-grade teacher Janine Teagues, a second-year teacher yet to be worn down by the administration. Her optimis...

Names in Childrens Literature - NAMES journal 4 Dec 2022 print edition

The Battle over Street Play in New York City (1910-1930)

"Where there are kids, there is play." Iona Opie "The setting of boundaries is always a political act." Edward J. Blakely and Mary Gail Snyder "We begin with the child when he is three years old. As soon as he begins to think he gets a little flag put in his hand."  Dr Robert LEY, leader of Nazi Labor Front. As an urban game designer, and an immigrant to the US, I find it particularly interesting to understand the relationship between cultures and public space: the implicit and expli...

Guillermo del Toro - Pinocchio - Imbues story with historical darkness

Of the numerous films Federico Fellini was unable to make in his lifetime, his version of Carlo Collodi’s 1883 novel The Adventures of Pinocchio is perhaps the one he most lamented. Characteristically nonconformist as a kid, Fellini disliked books, which he associated with adults and school, and "school did not seem to be something that opened up the world," he said in I, Fellini, "but something that closed it, something that interfered with my freedom and imprisoned me for the longest and be...

“Children of the Moon: Werewolves and Shape Shifters in Lore and Literature”

updated:  Monday, August 8, 2022 - 10:07am full name / name of organization:  Myra Tatum Salcedo/University of Texas Permian Basin contact email:  salcedo_m@utpb.edu categories (up to 5):  cultural studies and historical approaches fan studies and fandom film and television gender studies and sexuality ...

The Children's Homer - Homer in Print - The University of Chicago Library

The Children's Homer Homer was a staple of the schoolroom in antiquity, used to teach reading, grammar, and rhetoric. Despite concerns on the part of early Christians about teaching the works of pagan authors, allegorical interpretations made it possible to extract moral and ethical lessons from Homeric myth and assured survi...

Public Domain Day 2022: Trespassers Will

The Piglet lived in a very grand house in the middle of a beech-tree, and the beech-tree was in the middle of the forest, and the Piglet lived in the middle of the house. Next to his house was a piece of broken board which had "TRESPASSERS W" on it. When Christopher Robin asked the Piglet what it meant, he said it was his grandfather’s name, and had been in the family for a long time, Christopher Robin said you couldn’t be called Trespassers W, and Piglet said yes, you could, because his gran...

Bonus Episode Sacred and Profane Love: Matthew Mehan on Children’s Literature

[link ] Sometimes, you just need to do something fun, and this episode reflects one of those times. I was in DC this summer for a week teaching, so I popped into the Hillsdale College recording studio (where I’ve been before to chat Walker Percy) to talk with one of my favorite children’s lit authors, Matthew Mehan. We discuss children’s lit generally and also discuss his own books (which I highly recommend!): The Handsome Little Cygnet and Mr. Mehan’s Mildly Amusing Mythical ...

Year of the Month: Roland Saint-Laurent on LOOK WHO’S TALKING

Part of the late ’80s mini-wave of baby movies, which includes 1987’s Baby Boom and Three Men and a Baby, and 1989’s long-awaited Ghostbusters 2, Look Who’s Talking is, for my money, the most tolerable of the bunch thanks to writer-director Amy Heckerling’s script, which has some solid jokes and manages to avoid being overly cutesy given the premise. The story concerns single mother Mollie (Kirstie Alley), her son Mikey, and cab driver/part-time pilot/general loser James (John Travolta, in hi...

Tim Parks: Have you seen my hand?

‘Look both ways when you cross the street,’ Giovanni’s mother tells him when he goes out. He’s a careless boy, easily distracted, and the reader is primed. In the street, the boy is ‘so pleased with how careful he’s being that he starts hopping along like a sparrow’. A polite gentleman warns him that this is carelessness indeed: ‘You see? You’ve already lost a hand.’ Looking for his hand, Giovanni’s attention is absorbed by a tin can, then a limping dog. He doesn’t even notice he’s lost ‘a wh...

Boy With Green Hair, The (1948) – FilmFanatic.org

I wonder if there is any sort of intertext with this film and the film Black and Blue, or the movie Blue (not the blue-screen one but the more recent one). -zas Boy With Green Hair, The (1948) "Green is the color of spring… It means hope, a promise of new life to come." Synopsis: A young war orphan (Dean Stockwell) living with a kind older man (Pat O’Brien) wakes up one morning to discover that his hair has turned green. Though ostracized by his friends and neighbors, he remains ...

White Names

Skip to main content CultureWhy Are My Fellow Whites Still So Awful at Naming Children?Ensley? Kashton? Kairo? KAYCE?! Drew Magary on the terrible baby-naming epidemic of 2018. By Drew MagaryMay 17, 2018​Photo Illustration by Alicia Tatone You don’t need me to tell you that white people are feeling overly emboldened these days. It’s 2018 and the whites are out here being whiter than ever: watching Young Sheldon, calling the cops on black people for ordering cake pops, listening to Florida Geo...