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L. Frank Baum's "World of Oz"
Suzanne Rahn
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Description for L. Frank Baum's "World of Oz"
Hardback. Although L. Frank Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was published more than 100 years ago, literary critics and historians continue to discover new approaches to the world of Oz. This collection of essays represents some of the most interesting of these new approaches. Series: Children's Literature Association Centennial Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages, bibliography, footnotes. BIC Classification: DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
Although L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published one hundred years ago, literary critics and historians continue to discover new approaches to the fantastic world of Oz. The second in a new series of anthologies sponsored by the Children's Literature Association, this collection of essays represents some of the most interesting of these new approaches. Beginning with a glance back over the entire history of research and commentary on the Oz books, this work is organized in three main sections. Essays in the "Origins of Oz" examine Frank Baum's personal history and unlock the mystery of ... Read more
Although L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published one hundred years ago, literary critics and historians continue to discover new approaches to the fantastic world of Oz. The second in a new series of anthologies sponsored by the Children's Literature Association, this collection of essays represents some of the most interesting of these new approaches. Beginning with a glance back over the entire history of research and commentary on the Oz books, this work is organized in three main sections. Essays in the "Origins of Oz" examine Frank Baum's personal history and unlock the mystery of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Series
Children's Literature Association Centennial Studies
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810843806
SKU
V9780810843806
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About Suzanne Rahn
Suzanne Rahn is Associate Professor of English at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington and Director of their Children's Literature Program. She is also the author of Children's Literature: An Annotated Bibliography of the History and Criticism, Rediscoveries in Children's Literature and The Wizard of Oz: Shaping an Imaginary World.
Reviews for L. Frank Baum's "World of Oz"
...Rahn takes seriously the proposition that Baum deserves some consideration not just as a children's writer but as a representative figure in American cultural history....Rahn's crisply written and thoroughly researched introduction surveying a century's worth of popular, scholarly, and pedagogical responses to Oz, will be particularly useful....this is a good reference work and deserves recognition as such...
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