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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824066703321

Autore

Sanders Joe Sutliff

Titolo

A literature of questions : nonfiction for the critical child / / Joe Sutliff Sanders

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minnesota : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-4529-5576-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

810.9/9282

Soggetti

American prose literature - History and criticism

Children's literature, American - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: the literary study of children's nonfiction -- Beyond authority: questioning the literature of facts -- Voice and the seamless narrative of knowledge -- Nonfiction's unfinished characters: the people who are wrong, flawed, and incomplete -- Inquiry at and in the margins: how peritexts encourage critical reading -- Seeing photographs: breaking the authority of nonfiction's favorite medium -- The pursuit of reliability in almost astronauts -- The empathy of critical engagement: emotion and sentimentality in children's nonfiction -- Conclusion: critical engagement's moral imperative.