Contemporary adolescent literature and culture : the emergent adult / / edited by Mary Hilton and Maria Nikolajeva

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 170 p.)
• Disciplina: 809/.89282
• Soggetto topico: Children's literature - History and criticism
• Altri autori: HiltonMary <1946-> NikolajevaMaria
• Note generali: First published 2012 by Ashgate Publishing.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Adolescence and the natural world in young adult fiction / David Whitley -- 2. Nationhood, struggle, and identity / Elia Michelle Lafuente -- 3. Transgression and transition / Georgie Horrell -- 4. Romance, dystopia, and the hybrid child / Clementine Beauvais -- 5. Cross-dressing and performativity / Nicole Brugger-Dethmers -- 6. Monstrous bodies : writing the incestuously abused adolescent body / Lydia Kokkola -- 7. "The beat of your heart" : music in young adult literature and culture / Karen Coats -- 8. Emotional connection : representation of emotions in young adult literature / Bettina Kummerling-Meibauer -- 9. Brain and behaviour : the coherence of teenage responses to young adult literature / Shirley Brice Heath and Jennifer Lynn Wolf.
• Sommario/riassunto: Offering a range of critical perspectives, this volume explores the moral, ideological & literary landscapes in fiction & other cultural productions aimed at young adults. The contributors illuminate how the cultural constructions 'adolescent' & 'young adult fiction' share some of society's painful anxieties & contradictions.
• Titolo autorizzato: Contemporary adolescent literature and culture
• ISBN: 1-315-57378-4; 1-317-16098-3; 1-4094-3989-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807676703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Ashgate studies in childhood, 1700 to the present.