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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450796103321

Autore

McCallum Robyn

Titolo

Ideologies of identity in adolescent fiction [[electronic resource] ] : the dialogic construction of subjectivity / / Robyn McCallum

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Garland Pub., 1999

ISBN

1-282-77894-3

9786612778940

1-135-58130-4

0-203-90095-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (298 p.)

Collana

Garland reference library of social science ; ; v. 1094. Children's literature and culture ; ; v. 8

Disciplina

809.3/00835

Soggetti

Young adult fiction - History and criticism

Children's stories - History and criticism

Subjectivity in literature

Self in literature

Identity (Psychology) in literature

Social interaction in literature

Fiction - Technique

Narration (Rhetoric)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; IDEOLOGIES OF IDENTITY IN ADOLESCENT FICTION: THE DIALOGIC CONSTRUCTION OF SUBJECTIVITY; Copyright; CONTENTS; GENERAL EDITOR'S FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 REPRESENTING INTERSUBJECTIVITY: POLYPHONIC NARRATIVE TECHNIQUES; 3 DlALOGISM AND SUBJECTIVITY: DOUBLES AND THE QUEST FOR SELF; 4 ALIENATION AND TRANSGRESSION AS FUNCTIONS OF THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF SUBJECTIVITY; 5 SUBJECTIVITY, COGNITION AND CERTAINTY; 6 SUBJECTIVITY AND HISTORY; 7 THE TEXTUAL AND DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF SUBJECTIVITY I: EXTRALITERARY GENRES



8 THE TEXTUAL AND DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF SUBJECTIVITY II: HISTORIOGRAPHIC GENRES9 CONCLUSION; GLOSSARY; REFERENCES; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Ideologies of Identity in Adolescent Fiction examines the representation of selfhood in adolescent and children's fiction, using a Bakhtinian approach to subjectivity, language, and narrative. The ideological frames within which identities are formed are inextricably bound up with ideas about subjectivity, ideas which pervade and underpin adolescent fictions. Although the humanist subject has been systematically interrogated by recent philosophy and criticism, the question which lies at the heart of fiction for young people is not whether a coherent self exists but what kind of self i