Session Details

Friday, 30 December

715. Children’s Literature and Modernism

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., McKinley, Marriott

Program arranged by the Children’s Literature Association

Presiding: Karin E. Westman, Kansas State Univ.

1. “Global Consciousness in Children’s Literature, 1890–1950,” Melba Cuddy-Keane, Univ. of Toronto

2. “The Politics of Make-Believe: Gertrude Stein’s The World Is Round,” Pamela L. Kroll, Scarsdale High School, NY

3. “Gertrude, Eeyore, and Julia Kristeva: Children, Language, and Modernism,” Deborah Thacker, Univ. of Gloucestershire

4. “Beelzebabble: Finnegans Wake and Nonsense for Children,” Jennifer Shelton, Texas Tech Univ.

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