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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783859803321

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)

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

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910823895103321

Autore

Baker David <1954->

Titolo

Show me your environment : essays on poetry, poets, and poems / / David Baker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : The University of Michigan Press, , [2014]

ISBN

0-472-12042-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (211 p.)

Collana

Poets on poetry

Disciplina

811/.50936

Soggetti

American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism

Nature in literature

Place (Philosophy) in literature

Identity (Psychology) in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Poetry""; ""Show Me Your Environment""; ""Native Colors""; ""If: On Transit, Transcendence, and Trope""; ""Hum Along: How I Took up Guitar and Became a Poet""; ""Spill""; ""Poets""; ""Herbert's Conceited Poetry""; ""Corresponding Keats""; ""Song of Sanity: Whitman in Washington""; ""At Home with Emily Dickinson""; ""Almost Utmost: Marianne Moore""; ""Re: Wright""; ""Irony and Ecstasy: On Maxine Kumin and Gerald Stern""; ""Ted's Box: On Ted Kooser""; ""Provision and Perfection: Stanley Plumly's Poetry""; ""Brutal Mercy: On



Norman Dubie""

""Signs for My Fathers: The Evolution of David Bottoms""""Heaven and Earth: On Ellen Bryant Voigt and Robert Morgan""; ""Story's Stories: Anne Carson, Susan Mitchell, Carl Phillips, D. Nurkse, and Michael Collier""; ""Poems""; ""Whitman Alone: "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer"""; ""Walt Whitman's "Time to Come"""; ""Life Lines: Issa and Ella Wheeler Wilcox""; ""Kees and Me: "Late Evening Song" and"Top of the Stove"""; ""Levis Here and There: "In the City of Light"""; ""Jane Hirshfield's Foxes: "Three Foxes in aField at Twilight"""; ""Solmaz Sharif: "Personal Effects"""