Consuming Agency in Fairy Tales, Childlore, and Folkliterature

by Susan Honeyman

Book Overview

In this book Honeyman looks at manifestations of youth agency (and representations of agency produced for youth) as depicted in fairy tales, childlore and folk literature, investigating the dynamic of ideological manipulation and independent resistance as it can be read or expressed in bodies, first through social puppetry and then through coercive temptation (our consumption replacing the more obvious strings that bind us). Reading tales like...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415860881
• ISBN13: 9780415860888
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"