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Bloody Murder : The Homicide Tradition in Children's Literature /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2013]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Once upon a crime: homicide in American culture and popular children's literature from "Bluebeard" to Harry Potter
- "You must kill her and bring me her lungs and liver as proof": "Snow White" and the fact as well as fantasy of filicide
- "The queen had only one way of settling all difficulties ... 'off with his head!' ": Alice's adventures in Wonderland and the anti-gallows movement
- "Swarthy, sun-tanned, villainous looking fellows": Tarzan of the apes and criminal anthropology
- "A sixth sense seemed to tell her that she had encountered something unusual": psychic sleuthing in the Nancy Drew mystery series
- "How'd you like that haircut to begin just below the chin?": juvenile delinquency, teenager killers and a pulp aesthetic in the Outsiders
- "My job is ... to make you a human being in the eyes of the jury": confronting the dramatization-and demonization-of murder in Walter Dean Myers' monster
- Epilogue: "Just because you don't have a pulse doesn't mean you can't be perky": my so-called death, young adult zombie fiction and murder in the posthuman age.