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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Abate, Michelle Ann, 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: A Is for Adult: Coloring Books, Bedtime Stories, and Picture Books for Grown-Ups
  • A Book for Obsolete Children : Dr. Seuss' You're Only Old Once! and the Rise of Children's Literature for Adults
  • Off to Camp: Mabel Maney's The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse, the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, and Fanfiction
  • Material Matters: Art Spiegelman's In The Shadow of No Towers as a Board Book
  • Baby Talk: Barbara Park's MA! There's Nothing to Do Here!, Fetal Personhood, and Child Authorship
  • Learning Left From Right: Goodnight Bush, Don't Let the Republican Drive the Bus!, and the Broadside Tradition
  • Not Kidding Around: Go the F**k to Sleep and the New Adult Honesty about Parenthood
  • Conclusion: Both Radical and Reinforcing: The Complicated Cultural Significance of Children's Literature for Adults.