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Frances Hodgson Burnett's "contrary child" and the Kristevan law outside the law: A review of two novels by Katherine Paterson

8 Feb 2024
Happening On 14/02/2024

Wed. Feb 14, 3-4pm
 ORB (O'Rahilly Building) 2.2

English Department

Tom Dennehy


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The "contrary child" is a recurring persona in children's literature of the last two centuries. This talk will explore the subversive, even radical "contrariness" explored in such texts.

Tom Dennehy has taught at CIT (MTU) in the field of social care. He did an MA in history at UCC with the eminent historian John A Murphy. Having become fascinated with the challenge of reading children's literature through the prism of psychoanalysis and therapeutic models, he did an M. Phil on the so-called "golden age of children's books" and a Ph.D. on Cynthia Voigt' s Tillerman cycle of seven books, which were published between 1981 and 1987.

College of Arts, Celtic Studies & Social Sciences

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College Office, Room G31 ,Ground Floor, Block B, O'Rahilly Building, UCC

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