Anita Tarr

Lying, Truthtelling, and Storytelling in Children's and Young Adult Literature (eBook, PDF)

Telling It Slant

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores the pervasiveness of lying as well as the necessity for lying in our society; the origins of lying as connected to language acquisition, and the realization that storytelling is both lying and truthtelling.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Altersempfehlung: ab 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003815297
• Artikelnr.: 69495525

Autorenporträt

Anita Tarr is Professor Emeritus of English, Illinois State University. She has co-edited, with Donna R. White, two collections of essays: J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan In and Out of Time: A Children's Classic at 100 (2006) and Posthumanism in Young Adult Fiction: Finding Humanity in a Posthuman World (2018). She has also published on Robert Cormier, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Virginia Woolf, Thomas Carlyle, Scott O'Dell, Esther Forbes, and children's poetry.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter One: The Whole Truth About Lying
Chapter Two: Children and Lying
Chapter Three: Is Fiction a Pack of Lies?
Chapter Four: Liars in Children's and Young Adult Literature
Chapter Five: Unreliable Narrators
Chapter Six: Lying and the Künstlerroman, Part One
Chapter Seven: Lying and the Künstlerroman, Part Two
Conclusion