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Jardines de Kensington

Autor: Rodrigo Fresán

Número de Páginas: 410

«Con Jardines de Kensington , Rodrigo Fresán se confirma como uno de los autores fundamentales de la literatura en lengua española.» Ricardo Satorras, El País A lo largo de una noche, Peter Hook (célebre y recluso autor de las novelas juveniles protagonizadas por el viajero temporal Jim Yang) relata la extraña vida de sir James Matthew Barrie: el creador de Peter Pan y creyente en la idea de la infancia eterna como forma de fe y de arte. Pero esto no es todo. Con la evocación del Londres victoriano y la bizarra relación de Barrie con los hermanos Llewelyn Davies como teatral telón de fondo, Jardines de Kensington explora también el misterio privado de Peter Hook: lo que recuerda y lo que ha decidido olvidar; la saga lisérgica de sus padres pertenecientes a la cultura de los Swinging Sixties, y la súbita y final recuperación de su pasado en los primeros años de un nuevo mundo marcado por el horror milenarista del Había una y otra y otra vez... Jardines de Kensington -tercera novela de Rodrigo Fresán- es un curioso tapiz victoriano/pop y un alucinado artefacto gótico/psicodélico a la vez que una original investigación sobre los fines y el final de la niñez;...

Memories of Loss and Dreams of Perfection

Autor: Delmont Morrison , Shirley Morrison

Número de Páginas: 156

With "Memories of Loss and Dreams of Perfection", Delmont and Shirley Morrison have made an impressive contribution to psychology and to the appreciation of literature by demonstrating the ways in which a children's imaginative play can help them cope with the tragic early loss of beloved family members and by tracing how such early play processes form the basis for adult creativity. Their book is unique in that it: presents new ideas and expands our understanding of the complex interrelationships among loss, child development and creativity, and presents clinical cases of play therapy and case studies of creative adults to illustrate theory and concepts. The Morrisons incorporate scientific research, clinical case studies, and biographies in a manner that provides a deeper understanding of the fiction of Emily Bronte, J.M. Barrie, Jack Kerouac and Isak Dinesen. Readers will be deeply touched and moved to self-exploration by the humanity and sensitivity of this fine book.

J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan In and Out of Time

Autor: Donna R. White , Anita C. Tarr

Número de Páginas: 366

Celebrating 100 years of Peter Pan, this fourth volume in the Centennial Studies series explores the cultural contents of Barrie's creation and the continuing impact of Peter Pan on children's literature and popular culture today, especially focusing on the fluctuations of time and narrative strategies. This collection of essays on Peter Pan is separated into four parts. The first section is comprised of essays placing Barrie's in its own time period, and tackles issues such as the relationship between Hook and Peter in terms of child hatred, the similarities between Peter and Oscar Wilde, Peter Pan's position as an exemplar of the Cult of the Boy Child is challenged, and the influence of pirate lore and fairy lore are also examined. Part two features an essay on Derrida's concept of the grapheme, and uses it to argue that Barrie is attempting to undermine racial stereotypes. The third section explores Peter Pan's timelessness and timeliness in essays that examine the binary of print literacy and orality; Peter Pan's modular structure and how it is ideally suited to video game narratives; the indeterminacy of gender that was common to Victorian audiences, but also threatening and...

Peter Pan's Shadows in the Literary Imagination

Autor: Kirsten Stirling

Número de Páginas: 212

This book is a literary analysis of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan in all its different versions -- key rewritings, dramatisations, prequels, and sequels -- and includes a synthesis of the main critical interpretations of the text over its history. A comprehensive and intelligent study of the Peter Pan phenomenon, this study discusses the book’s complicated textual history, exploring its origins in the Harlequinade theatrical tradition and British pantomime in the nineteenth century. Stirling investigates potential textual and extra-textual sources for Peter Pan, the critical tendency to seek sources in Barrie’s own biography, and the proliferation of prequels and sequels aiming to explain, contextualize, or close off, Barrie’s exploration of the imagination. The sources considered include Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson’s Starcatchers trilogy, Régis Loisel’s six-part Peter Pan graphic novel in French (1990-2004), Andrew Birkin’s The Lost Boys series, the films Hook (1991), Peter Pan (2003) and Finding Neverland (2004), and Geraldine McCaughrean’s "official sequel" Peter Pan in Scarlet (2006), among others.

Vested Interests

Autor: Marjorie B. Garber

Número de Páginas: 500

A revolutionary and wide-ranging examination of transvestism ranging from Shakespeare and Mark Twain to Oscar Wilde and Peter Pan, from transsexual surgery and transvestite sororities to Madonna and Flip Wilson. The author examines the nature and importance of cross-dressing and society's recurring fascination with it. 40 pages of inserts, 8 in color.

Vested Interests

Autor: Marjorie Garber

Número de Páginas: 500

Beginning with the bold claim, "There can be no culture without the transvestite," Marjorie Garber explores the nature and significance of cross-dressing and of the West's recurring fascination with it. Rich in anecdote and insight, Vested Interests offers a provocative and entertaining view of our ongoing obsession with dressing up--and with the power of clothes.