Mary Jane Hurst

Broschiertes Buch

The Voice of the Child in American Literature

Beschreibung

We as adults are reflected in our children, those in our literature as well as those in our familes, and so it is natural to want to examine their presence among us. Children and child speech are important literary elements which merit careful critical analysis. Surprisingly, comprehensive studies of the child in American fiction have not been previously attempted and fictional child speech, even that of individual characters has been almost totally ignored. Nevertheless, the language of fiction

Autor

Mary Jane Hurst is professor of English at Texas Tech University and the author of Language, Gender, and Community in Late Twentieth-Century Fiction: American Voices and American Identities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of Kentucky
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780813153155
• ISBN-10: 0813153158
• Artikelnr.: 41094890