Death, gender, and sexuality in contemporary adolescent literature / / Kathryn James
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| Autore: |
James Kathryn
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| Titolo: |
Death, gender, and sexuality in contemporary adolescent literature / / Kathryn James
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Routledge, 2009 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (221 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 810.9/9282 |
| 810.99282 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Young adult literature, American - History and criticism |
| Death in literature | |
| Sex role in literature | |
| Sex in literature | |
| Teenagers - Books and reading | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 forms. Death, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Adolescent Literature is a pioneering study that addresses these methodological and contextual gaps. Focusing on texts produced since the late-1980s, and drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives, Kathryn James shows how representations of deat |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Death, gender, and sexuality in contemporary adolescent literature |
| ISBN: | 1-135-89119-2 |
| 1-281-90095-8 | |
| 9786611900953 | |
| 0-203-88515-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910813151403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Children's literature and culture ; ; 61.