The School Story : Young Adult Narratives in the Age of Neoliberalism /

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"The School Story: Young Adult Narratives in the Age of Neoliberalism examines the work of contemporary writers, filmmakers, and critics who, reflecting on the realm of school experience, help to shape dominant ideas of school. The creations discussed are mostly stories for children and young a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Aitchison, David (David Carlyle) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Young adult literature.
Schools.
Neoliberalism.
Education > Social aspects.
Education > Political aspects.
Education > Economic aspects.
Education > Aims and objectives.
Children's literature.
Young adult literature > History and criticism.
Children's literature > History and criticism.
Schools > Fiction.
Fiction.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Critics, canon, and school story debate
  • Chapter 2: Giving education a bad name: bookish boys in contemporary American school stories
  • Chapter 3: Darkness as heuristic: care and development in pathological school fiction
  • Chapter 4: Detention, dis-ease, and death: contemporary school experience in popular world cinema
  • Chapter 5: Teenage authors, narketplace consciousness, and the deregulation of childhood in the age of neoliberalism
  • Afterword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index.

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