Thesis--Uppsala. / Summary in German. Bibliography of works by G. Linder: p. 280-358. Includes bibliographical references (379-388).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of English Language and Literature, June 1999. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Liberty University, 2010. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis PlanB (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references.

Orientador: Maria Rosa Rodrigues Martins de Camargo / Banca: Cesar Donizeti Pereira Leite / Banca: Norma Sandra de Almeida Ferreira / Banca: Katia Maria Roberto de Oliveira Kodama / Banca: Eliane Aparecida Bacocina / Resumo: A presente tese de doutorado tem por intento buscar compreender o que vem a ser o aspecto da humanização no boneco-personagem Pinóquio, adentrando, interrogando, conhecendo, ainda que parcialmente, em quais condições a obra foi escrita. O percurso metodológico seguiu de acordo com o paradigma indiciário proposto por Ginzburg e a ideia de artesania desenvolvida por Santos, entrelaçando pesquisa bibliográfica à releitura da obra, seguindo pistas referentes à vida do autor - Carlo Collodi, compondo uma narrativa científico-poética. Os aportes teóricos sobre o estudo da linguagem abarcam os escritos de Bakhtin, Rancière, Benjamin e Deleuze e Guattari, além das provocações de Calvino sobre a escrita. Autores como Marcheschi, Bertacchini, Biagi, Lorenzini e Bronzuoli somaram ao estudo da obra As aventuras de Pinóquio. O levantamento bibliográfico inicial indicou que a maioria das pesquisas brasileiras não buscou compreender o processo de humanização do boneco na relação/tensão com o seu criador. A pesquisadora, artista, atenta para a superfície da obra, nas passagens em que a narrativa se desdobra, anda pelas bordas, inventa outro texto: uma leitura renovada, em que a potência do riso toma forma. Pinóquio, pelo riso, mostra para além de uma vida impertinente, uma escrita inventiva de seu autor. / Abstract: This doctoral dissertation aims to comprehend what is the aspect of humanization in the character-doll Pinocchio, incoming, interrogating, knowing, even partially, under what conditions the manuscript was written. The methodological course followed according to the evidential paradigm proposed by Ginzburg and the idea of craftsmanship developed by Santos, associating bibliographical research to the rereading of the manuscript, following clues regarding to the life of the author - Carlo Collodi, composing a scientific-poetic narrative. The theoretical contributions on the study of language include the writings of Bakhtin, Rancière, Benjamin and Deleuze and Guattari, as well as Calvin's provocations on writing. Authors like Marcheschi, Bertacchini, Biagi, Lorenzini and Bronzuoli added to the study of the manuscript The Adventures of Pinocchio. The initial bibliographic review indicated that most of the Brazilian researches did not seek to understand the humanization process of the doll in relation/tension with its creator. The researcher, artist, focused on the surface of the manuscript, in the ways in which the narrative stretches out, walks along the edges, invents another text: a renewed reading, in which the power of laughter takes shape. Pinocchio, through laughter, shows beyond an impertinent life, an inventive writing of its author / Doutor

This project focuses on Horus Gilgamesh’s Awkward Moments of the Children’s Bible, Vol. 1 (2013), an adult picture book that parodies the Bible by illustrating biblical scriptures with child unfriendly images of gore, sex, and God’s sexy ass. Using semiotic, religious, and queer theory, I read this text as not only a satirical one, but one that is life affirming to “childish adults”—those individuals who don’t quite fit into the heteropatriachichal standards normalized by religious right ideologies.

The focus of this study is a trend in British children’s literature concerning the ancientness of British landscape, with what I argue is a Neo-Romantic sensibility. Neo-Romanticism is marked by highly subjective viewpoints on the countryside, and I argue that it illuminates our understanding of post-war children’s literature, particularly in what is often called its Second Golden Age. Through discussion of four generally overlooked authors, each of importance to this formative publishing era, I aim to explore certain aspects of the Second Golden Age children’s literature establishment. I argue that the trend I critique is characterised by ambiguity, defined by the imaginative practice entailed in the archaeological view.

The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling was, for many Millennials, a defining literary and media experience. The popularity of the series has spawned many fan-made parodies. Meanwhile, in recent years, the classical Petipa story ballet style has begun to give way to more modern structures of choreography. The Marauder’s Son, the culmination of a yearlong choreographic endeavor, is a story ballet that strives to introduce new audiences to classical dance through the use of the first book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. The full production is available for viewing in the Scripps College Dance Department and on YouTube.

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role which animal narrators play in the it-narrative genre. This paper argues that the qualities of life and agency separate animal narrators from object narrators, making animal narrators especially capable of providing social critique thanks to animal narrators' naturally occupying a space between subject and object. This thesis marks the rising use of animal narrators and notes their narratological trends over a 62 period, showing the lingering influence of late-eighteenth-century models into mass-market periodicals of antebellum America and Victorian Britain. Chapters One and Two provides generic definitions and a brief consideration of animals in popular British culture and responds to key points of debate in the current it-narrative field by using Felissa or; The Life and Opinions of a Kitten of Sentiment (1811). Chapters Three and Four analyze related texts from before and after Felissa. Chapters Four and Five extend the discussion to shorter fiction in children's periodicals, taking the audience response to it-narratives into account. Highlighting the distinction between animal and non-animal narrators in these venues gives nuance to our understanding of the well-known "circulation" thematic in the it-narrative genre, while also calling attention to these narratives' less-studied but rigorous examinations of slavery, class difference, and colonialism.

This thesis is intended to document and explain the peculiarly high incidence of monsters in English children's literature, where monsters are understood in the term's full etymological sense as things which demonstrate through disturbance. In this context, monsters are frequently young people themselves; the youthful protagonists of children's literature. Their demonstrative operation typically functions not only as an overt or covert tool by which to educate children's literature's implied child audience, but also as a wider indicator - demonstrator - of adult appreciations of and arguments over children and how children should be permitted to grow. In this latter role especially, children are rendered truly monstrous as alienated and problematic tokens in adult cultural arguments. They can fast become such efficient demonstrators of adult crises that their very presence engenders all the notions of unacceptability with which monsters are characteristically associated. The chronological range of this thesis' study is the eighteenth-century to the present. From this period, the following children's authors, children's books, and series of children's books have been examined in detail: • Thomas Day: Sandford and Merton • Anna Laetitia Barbauld: Lessons for Children and Hymns in Prose for Children • Sarah Trimmer: Fabulous Histories • Mary Martha Sherwood: The Fairchild Family • Charles Kingsley: The Water-Babies • Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass • George MacDonald: At the Back of the North Wind • J.M. Barrie: Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, Peter Pan, and Peter and Wendy • C.S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia (The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and The Last Battle) • J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter {The Philosopher's Stone, The Chamber of Secrets, The Prisoner of Azkaban, The Goblet of Fire, The Order of the Phoenix, and The Half-Blood Prince). The theoretical notions of monsters and monstrosity that are used to discuss these texts draw principally on the writings on the sublime by Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant, the uncanny by Sigmund Freud, and the fantastic by Tzvetan Todorov.