Picture-book professors : academia and children's literature / Melissa M. Terras.
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Terras, Melissa M. (författare)
- ISBN 1108438458
- Publicerad: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, [2018]
- Copyright: ©2018
- Engelska 211 pages
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Serie: Cambridge elements
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- How is academia portrayed in children's literature? This Element ambitiously surveys fictional professors in texts marketed towards children, who are overwhelmingly white and male, tending to be elderly scientists. Professors fall into three stereotypes: the vehicle to explain scientific facts, the baffled genius, and the evil madman. By the late twentieth century, the stereotype of the male, mad, muddlehead, called Professor SomethingDumb, is formed in humorous yet pejorative fashion. This Element provides a publishing history of the role of academics in children's literature, questioning the book culture which promotes the enforcement of stereotypes regarding intellectual expertise in children's media. This title is also available, with additional material, as Open Access.
Ämnesord
- College teachers in literature. (LCSH)
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature. (LCSH)
- Children's literature -- History and criticism. (LCSH)
- Children's literature -- Publishing. (LCSH)
- Professorer i litteraturen (sbiao)
- Stereotyper i litteraturen (sbiao)
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- PN1009.A1 (LCC)
- 809.89282 (DDC)
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