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The “Becoming” of Pinocchio: The Liminal Nature of Collodi’s Boy-Toy
- Children's Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 44, 2016
- pp. 192-218
- 10.1353/chl.2016.0020
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Abstract:
Through Collodi’s original Pinocchio story and the character himself, this essay looks to examine the liminal nature of Pinocchio and the number of ways that the boy-toy, throughout the majority of his literary journey, occupies an in-between space as both an inanimate object and a living subject.