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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1. Verfasser: Abate, Michelle Ann 1975- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 2020
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Zusammenfassung:"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"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:viii, 231 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9781421438863
1421438860

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