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UNINA9910452969103321 |
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Autore |
James Kathryn |
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Titolo |
Death, gender, and sexuality in contemporary adolescent literature [[electronic resource] /] / Kathryn James |
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New York, : Routledge, 2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-135-89119-2 |
1-281-90095-8 |
9786611900953 |
0-203-88515-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (221 p.) |
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Collana |
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Children's literature and culture ; ; 61 |
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Soggetti |
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Young adult literature, American - History and criticism |
Death in literature |
Sex role in literature |
Sex in literature |
Teenagers - Books and reading |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction Beginning with Endings: Death in Children's Literature; Chapter One Points of Departure: Death, Culture, Representation; Chapter Two Matilda's Last Dance: Death and Historical Fiction; Chapter Three Verisimilitude: Representing Death "In the Real"; Chapter Four Beyond Consensus Reality: Death and Fantasy Fiction; Chapter Five Imagined Futures: Death and the Post-Disaster Novel; Conclusion Mapping the Landscape: The Unknown Country; NOTES; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Knowledge about carnality and its limits provides the agenda for much of the fiction written for adolescent readers today, yet there exists little critical engagement with the ways in which it has been represented in the young adult novel in either discursive, ideological, or rhetorical |
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