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A tale of animals : = The changing images of animals in animal fantasy for children from Aesop's Fables through 1986.

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Reminder of title:	The changing images of animals in animal fantasy for children from Aesop's Fables through 1986.
Author:	Duan, Shu-Jy.
Description:	1 online resource (233 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 56-11, Section: A.
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ISBN:	9798208992241

A tale of animals : = The changing images of animals in animal fantasy for children from Aesop's Fables through 1986.
Duan, Shu-Jy.

A tale of animals :The changing images of animals in animal fantasy for children from Aesop's Fables through 1986. - 1 online resource (233 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 56-11, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Ohio State University, 1994.

Includes bibliographical references

This study takes as its starting point two concerns: The didacticism in children's literature and the anthropomorphism in animal fantasy. These two concerns furnish the following questions: Why have animal fantasies endured since Aesop on, and how have they been employed in the service of society in general and children in particular? In a broad perspective, the answers to these questions are significant for understanding what children's literature was and is, and the social function of children's literature. That is, through studying animal fantasy, the interrelationships among the underlying values, objectives, and literary merits of children's literature are likely to reveal themselves. More narrowly, a detailed study of animal fantasy has been long overdue. It is even more disturbing when one considers the evolution of animal fantasy in terms of form and contents, should be a slice of the history of children's literature. To investigate these issues from a fair perspective, a historical overview of animal fantasy from Aesop through 1986 is undertaken in terms of the thematic concerns and the characterization of animals. What comes out are two observations. One is, there seems to be a didactic tradition in children's literature, and this tradition persists until today within animal fantasy. The other is, the animal character in animal fantasy can be successful only if something from the animal is kept. It is hoped that through such a historical survey, animal fantasy can be established as a worthy, legitimate sub-genre within children's literature. This study consists of seven chapters. Chapter I includes literature review on animal fantasy and methodology for this study. The following main body examines the historical evolution of animal fantasy: Aesop's Fables (Chapter II), eighteenth-century fictional biography (Chapter III), Victorian and Edwardian animal fantasy (Chapter IV), and twentieth-century animal fantasy (the Romantic in Chapter V and the Righteous in Chapter VI). A summary and discussion is provided in Chapter VII.

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