ENGL 606. Tricksters and Iconoclasts in 20th-Century
Children’s Poetry. Prof. Joseph Thomas.
Course would feature such authors as Shel Silverstein, Dr. Seuss,
Maurice Sendak, John Ciardi, Theodore Roethke, and Gertrude Stein.
We would be reading Theory by Lee Edelman (No Future: Queer Theory
and the Death Drive), Leslie Fiedler (Freaks: Myths and Images of
the Secret Self), Lewis Hyde (Trickster Makes This World), among
others.