Newland follows Deleuze down the rabbit hole of children’s literature, exploring the bizarre repetitions of Eugene Ionesco; the ritournelles of Pierrette Fleutiaux; the becoming-animal and becoming-molecular of Virginia Woolf; the becoming-plant of J. M. Gustave Le Clézio; a world out of time in Michel Tournier; and language from stutter, to howl, to (non)sense, to the zeroth voice in Lewis Carroll and James Joyce. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.
- P. D. Hopkins, CHOICE
Newland has a gift for making Deleuzian concepts accessible and efficacious. She demonstrates how and why Deleuzian theory should guide literary critics through the paradoxes inherent in the adult/child relationship that informs children’s literature. Deleuze in Children’s Literature is smart, innovative, and elegant. It will become a scholarly imperative for opening a new door to children’s literature.
Roberta Seelinger Trites, Distinguished Professor of English, Illinois State University