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The empire's old clothes : what the Lone Ranger, Babar, and other innocent heroes do to our minds / Ariel Dorfman.
LIBRA PN56.P55 D66 1983
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LIBRA PN56.P55 D66 1983
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LIBRA - Rare Comics Collection PN56.P55 D66 1983
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dorfman, Ariel.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- Popular literature.
- Books and reading--Psychological aspects.
- Books and reading.
- Heroes in literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Rothman, Steven D. (donor) (RBC copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 225 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pantheon Books, [1983]
- Contents:
- Childhood as underdevelopment
- Of elephants and ducks
- The Lone Ranger's last ride
- The infantilization of the adult reader
- The innocents march into history
- and overthrow a government.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0394527232 :
- 0394714865
- OCLC:
- 9465941
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