Rachel Falconer

The Crossover Novel (eBook, PDF)

Contemporary Children's Fiction and Its Adult Readership

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Produktbeschreibung

"Highly recommended" by Choice

While crossover books such as Rowling's Harry Potter series have enjoyed enormous sales and media attention, critical analysis of crossover fiction has not kept pace with the growing popularity of this new category of writing and reading. Falconer remedies this lack with close readings of six major British works of crossover fiction, and a wide-ranging analysis of the social and cultural implications of the global crossover phenomenon. A uniquely in-depth study of the crossover novel, Falconer engages with a ground-breaking range of sources, from primary texts, to child and adult reader responses, to cultural and critical theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135865016
• Artikelnr.: 43072926

Autorenporträt

Rachel Falconer is a Reader in English Literature at the University of Sheffield. She has published criticism in the areas of classical, early modern, and contemporary literature and narrative theory. Her recent books include Hell in Contemporary Literature, and Face to Face: Mikhail Bakhtin in Russia and the West.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editor's Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction A Decade of Border Crossing
Chapter 1 Kiddults at Large
Chapter 2 Harry Potter, Lightness and Death
Chapter 3 Coming of Age in a Fantasy World:
Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials
Chapter 4 Seeing Things Big:
Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Chapter 5 Adolescence and Abjection:
Geraldine McCaughrean's The White Darkness
Chapter 6 The Search for Roots:
David Almond's Clay
Chapter 7 Re-reading Childhood Books:
C.S. Lewis's The Silver Chair
Conclusion Crossing Thresholds of Time
Notes
Bibliography
Index