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Contributions by Megan De Roover, Jennifer Harrison, Sarah Jackson, Zoe Jaques, Nada Kujund?¥i?ç, Ivana Milkovi?ç, Niall Nance-Carroll, Perry Nodelman, David Rudd, Jonathan Chun Ngai Tsang, Nicholas Tucker, Donna Varga, and Tim Wadham One hundred years ago, disparate events culminated in one of the most momentous happenings in the history of children's literature. Christopher Robin Milne was born to A. A. Milne and his wife; Edward Bear, a lovable stuffed toy, arrived on the market; and a living, young bear named Winnie settled in at the London Zoo. The collaboration originally begun by the Milnes, the Shepards, Winnie herself, and the many toys and personalities who fed into the Pooh legend continued to evolve throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to become a global phenomenon. Yet even a brief examination of this sensation reveals that Pooh and his adventures were from the onset marked by a rich complexity behind a seeming simplicity and innocence. This volume, after a decades-long lull in concentrated Pooh scholarship, seeks to highlight the plurality of perspectives, modes, and interpretations these tales afford, especially after the Disney Corporation scooped its paws into the honeypot in the 1950s. Positioning Pooh: Edward Bear after One Hundred Years argues the doings of Pooh remain relevant for readers in a posthuman, information-centric, media-saturated, globalized age. Pooh's forays destabilize social certainties on all levels-linguistic, ontological, legal, narrative, political, and so on. Through essays that focus on geography, language, narrative, characterization, history, politics, economics, and a host of other social and cultural phenomena, contributors to this volume explore how the stories open up discourses about identity, ethics, social relations, and notions of belonging. This first volume to offer multiple perspectives from multiple authors on the Winnie-the-Pooh books in a single collection focuses on and develops approaches that bring this classic of children's literature into the current era. Essays included not only are of relevance to scholars with an interest in Pooh, Milne, and the """"golden age"""" of children's literature, but also showcase the development of children's literature scholarship in step with exciting modern developments in literary theory.

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These insightful and engaging essays are valuable to the Pooh scholarship, which is relatively scant despite the canonical status of the Pooh books, as well as to studies on the relationship between classical children's literature and the changing world.--Shuqin Jiang International Reseach in Children's Literature Given the importance of A. A. Milne to the canon, scholarship on Pooh is surprisingly scant. With Positioning Pooh: Edward Bear after One Hundred Years, Jen Harrison has curated a range of insightful and engaging essays to fill a void in the field.--Lydia Kokkola, coeditor of Eleanor H. Porter's Pollyanna A Children's Classic at 100

Given the importance of A. A. Milne to the canon, scholarship on Pooh is surprisingly scant. With Positioning Pooh: Edward Bear after One Hundred Years, Jen Harrison has curated a range of insightful and engaging essays to fill a void in the field.--Lydia Kokkola, coeditor of Eleanor H. Porter's Pollyanna A Children's Classic at 100

"In all, this volume is a rich resource for anyone studying Pooh and hoping to expand on existing research and explore new theoretical approaches to classic children's books, --Sarah Minslow ""Children's Literature Association Quarterly"" These insightful and engaging essays are valuable to the Pooh scholarship, which is relatively scant despite the canonical status of the Pooh books, as well as to studies on the relationship between classical children's literature and the changing world.--Shuqin Jiang ""International Reseach in Children's Literature"" Given the importance of A. A. Milne to the canon, scholarship on Pooh is surprisingly scant. With Positioning Pooh: Edward Bear after One Hundred Years, Jen Harrison has curated a range of insightful and engaging essays to fill a void in the field.--Lydia Kokkola, coeditor of Eleanor H. Porter's ""Pollyanna"" A Children's Classic at 100"

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Jennifer Harrison is instructor of English at East Stroudsburg University. She is author of Posthumanist Readings in Dystopian Young Adult Fiction: Negotiating the Nature/Culture Divide. She is editor for the journal Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures and a reviewer for The Children's Book Review website.

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