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Supernatural youth : the rise of the teen hero in literature and popular culture /
"Supernatural Youth: The Rise of the Teen Hero in Literature and Popular Culture, edited by Jes Battis, addresses the role of adolescence in fantastic media, adventure stories, cinema, and television aimed at youth. The goal of this volume is to analyze the ways in which young heroic protagonis...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Lexington Books,
c2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Spiritual, not sexual: the plight of the adolescent human wizard in Diane Duane's Young wizards series / Alice Mills
- Magical learning and loss: Hermione Granger and the female intellectual in Harry Potter / Alissa Burger
- Magic, adolescence, and education on Terry Pratchett's Discworld / Gideon Haberkorn and Verena Reinhardt
- Does the phrase 'vampire slayer' mean anything to you?: the discursive construction of the just woman warrior trope in Joss Whedon's Buffy, the vampire slayer TV series / David Nel
- Why Xander matters: the extraordinary ordinary in Buffy the vampire slayer / David Kociemba
- Kinda gay: queer cult fandom and Willow's (bi)sexuality in Buffy the vampire slayer / Jennifer Moorman
- Postfeminism in a postmodern landscape: navigating difference on Veronica Mars / Cary Elza
- Bigger things to worry about: allusions and the British fantasy tradition in Hex / David Nel
- Being Harvey Kinkel: the laws of the other realm in Sabrina the teenage witch / Tiffany S. Teofilo
- Closed minds: Tamora Pierce's teenagers and the problem of desire / Anastasia Salter
- Nerds, geeks, and dorks, oh my!: the teen wizard as social outcast / R.C. Neighbors
- Breaking the spell: power and choice in Holly Black's Valiant / Alison Ching
- Enrolling in the hidden school: Timothy Hunter and the education of the teenage comic book magus / Jason L Winslade.