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Contemporary adolescent literature and culture : the emergent adult /

Offering a wide range of critical perspectives, this volume explores the moral, ideological and literary landscapes in fiction and other cultural productions aimed at young adults. Topics examined are adolescence and the natural world, nationhood and identity, the mapping of sexual awakening onto po...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hilton, Mary, 1946-, Nikolajeva, Maria
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2012.
Colección:Ashgate studies in childhood, 1700 to the present.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: time of turmoil / Mary Hilton and Maria Nikolajeva
  • 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 / Clémentine 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 Kümmerling-Meibauer
  • 9. Brian and behaviour: the coherence of teenage responses to young adult literature / Shirley Brice Heath and Jennifer Lynn Wolf.