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Ideologies of identity in adolescent fiction : the dialogic construction of subjectivity / Robyn McCallum.
LIBRA PN3443 .M38 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCallum, Robyn.
- Series:
- Garland reference library of social science ; v. 1094.
- Garland reference library of social science. Children's literature and culture series ; v. 8.
- Garland reference library of social science ; v. 1094. Children's literature and culture ; v. 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Young adult fiction--History and criticism.
- Young adult fiction.
- Children's stories--History and criticism.
- Children's stories.
- Subjectivity in literature.
- Self in literature.
- Identity (Psychology) in literature.
- Social interaction in literature.
- Fiction--Technique.
- Fiction.
- Narration (Rhetoric).
- Physical Description:
- viii, 285 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Garland Pub., 1999.
- Summary:
- "Ideologies of Identity in Adolescent Fiction "examines the representation of selfhood in adolescent and children's fiction, using a Bakhtinian approach to subjectivity, language, and narrative. The ideological frames within which identities are formed are inextricably bound up with ideas about subjectivity, ideas which pervade and underpin adolescent fictions. Although the humanist subject has been systematically interrogated by recent philosophy and criticism, the question which lies at the heart of fiction for young people is not whether a coherent self exists but what kind of self it is and what are the conditions of its coming into being. "Ideologies of Identity in Adolescent Fiction "has a double focus: first, the images of selfhood that the fictions offer their readers, especially the interactions between selfhood, social and cultural forces, ideologies, and other selves; and second, the strategies used to structure narrative and to represent subjectivity and intersubjectivity.
- Contents:
- Chapter 2 Representing Intersubjectivity: Polyphonic Narrative Techniques 23
- Chapter 3 Dialogism and Subjectivity: Doubles and the Quest for the Self 67
- Chapter 4 Alienation and Transgression as Functions of the Social Construction of Subjectivity 99
- Chapter 5 Subjectivity, Cognition and Certainty 131
- Chapter 6 Subjectivity and History 167
- Chapter 7 The Textual and Discursive Construction of Subjectivity I: Extraliterary Genres 203
- Chapter 8 The Textual and Discursive Construction of Subjectivity II: Historiographic Genres 229.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0815322909
- OCLC:
- 39914377
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