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ROALD DAHL AND PHILOSOPHY ROALD DAHL AND PHILOSOPHY A Little Nonsense Now and Then Edited by Jacob M. Held ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD Lanham • Boulder • New York • Toronto • Plymouth, UK PublishedbyRowman&Littlefield 4501ForbesBoulevard,Suite200,Lanham,Maryland20706 www.rowman.com 10ThornburyRoad,PlymouthPL67PP,UnitedKingdom DistributedbyNationalBookNetwork Copyright©2014byRowman&Littlefield Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyformorby anyelectronicormechanicalmeans,includinginformationstorageandretrieval systems,withoutwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher,exceptbyareviewer whomayquotepassagesinareview. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationInformationAvailable LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData RoaldDahlandphilosophy:alittlenonsensenowandthen/editedbyJacobM.Held. pagescm Includesindex. ISBN978-1-4422-2252-6(pbk.:alk.paper)—ISBN978-1-4422-2253-3(electronic) 1.Dahl,Roald—Criticismandinterpretation.2.Philosophyinliterature.3.Children’sstories,Eng- lish—Historyandcriticism.I.Held,JacobM.,1977–editorofcompilation. PR6054.A35Z8572014 823'.914—dc23 2013048452 TMThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirementsof AmericanNationalStandardforInformationSciencesPermanenceofPaperfor PrintedLibraryMaterials,ANSI/NISOZ39.48-1992. PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica Dedicated to me, Jacob M. Held, without whom none of this would have been possible. CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction:RoaldDahlandAbsurdity:Children’sLiteratureand theDivorcebetweentheMindThatDesiresandtheWorld ThatDisappoints 1 JacobM.Held 1 EpicurusandtheChocolateFactory 7 BenjaminA.Rider 2 OnGettingOurJustDesserts:WillyWonka,ImmanuelKant, andtheSummumBonum 19 JacobM.Held 3 Matilda,ExistentialistSuperhero 33 ElizabethButterfield 4 TheExistentialJourneyofJamesHenryTrotter:Kierkegaard, Freedom,andDespairinJamesandtheGiantPeach 47 MatthewBokmaandAdamBarkman 5 OfMiceand(Posthu)Man:RoaldDahl’sTheWitchesand EthicsbeyondHumanism 59 TaineDuncan 6 “WhoIsThisCrazyMan?”:WillyWonka’sUneasy Predicament 73 CamCobb vii viii CONTENTS 7 “HeWillBeAlteredQuiteaBit”:DisciplineandPunishment inWillyWonka’sFactory 81 MarcNapolitano 8 MatildaandthePhilosophyofEducation:or,What’san EducationFor? 93 JohnV.Karavitis 9 ShatteringtheGlassElevator:AuthenticityandSocialOrder intheWorksofRoaldDahl 107 JosephJ.FoyandTimothyM.Dale 10 TheFantasticallyJustMr.Fox:PropertyandDistributive JusticeAccordingtoFoxesandOtherDiggers 121 JacobM.Held 11 WillyWonkaandtheImperialChocolateFactory 137 RonNovy 12 George’sMarvelousMedicine,or,WhatShouldWeDo aboutGlobalHunger? 149 JanellePötzsch 13 Crodswoggle,Flushbunking,andAllThingsFriendshipin TheBFG 161 ChadKleist 14 CharlieandtheNightmareFactory:TheArtofChildren’s HorrorFiction 173 GregLittmann 15 BrimfulofBuzzburgers:AHumanBean’sWildPossibilities 191 MirandaNell 16 Dewey’sMarvelousMedicine:NegativeCapabilityandthe WonderofRoaldDahl 205 TanyaJeffcoat Notes 217 Index 239 Twits,Witches,andDirtyBeasts:AuthorBiographies 245

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