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UNINA9910791674303321 |
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Autore |
Tribunella Eric L |
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Titolo |
Melancholia and maturation [[electronic resource] ] : the use of trauma in American children's literature / / Eric L. Tribunella |
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Knoxville, : University of Tennessee Press, c2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-09842-3 |
9786613098429 |
1-57233-689-7 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (201 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Bildungsromans, American - History and criticism |
Children's stories, American - History and criticism |
Loss (Psychology) in literature |
Maturation (Psychology) in literature |
Psychic trauma in literature |
Young adult fiction, American - History and criticism |
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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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Losing and using queer youth -- A boy and his dog -- Knowing, unknowing, and the achievement of young adulthood -- Melancholic development and Revolutionary War fiction for children -- Melancholic sacrifice and the Holocaust in American children's culture -- Coda: physical trauma, childhood embodiment, and children's literature. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"Coming of age" in children's fiction often means achieving maturity through the experience of trauma. In classics ranging from Old Yeller to The Outsiders, a narrative of psychological pain defies expectations of childhood as a time of innocence and play. In this provocative new book, Eric L. Tribunella explores why trauma, especially the loss of a loved object, occurs in some of the most popular and critically acclaimed twentieth-century American fiction for children.Tribunella draws on queer theory and feminist revisions of Freud's notion of melancholia, which is described a |
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