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No kids allowed : children's literature for adults /
"The author analyzes what she sees as a new literary genre, emerging in the eighties, which she calls "children's literature for adults": that is, books with the visual format and verbal register of children's books but with a wry and knowing message meant for adults. The au...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2020]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "The author analyzes what she sees as a new literary genre, emerging in the eighties, which she calls "children's literature for adults": that is, books with the visual format and verbal register of children's books but with a wry and knowing message meant for adults. The author conducts close readings of a series of books in this genre. She contends that the contemporary interest in the genre suggests that an adult's relationship with childhood may be something other than linear"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 231 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1421438879 9781421438870 |