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Ideologies of identity in adolescent fiction : the dialogic construction of subjectivity / Robyn McCallum.
- 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 ; 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:
- 1 online resource (298 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Garland Pub., 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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 i
- Contents:
- Cover; IDEOLOGIES OF IDENTITY IN ADOLESCENT FICTION: THE DIALOGIC CONSTRUCTION OF SUBJECTIVITY; Copyright; CONTENTS; GENERAL EDITOR'S FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 REPRESENTING INTERSUBJECTIVITY: POLYPHONIC NARRATIVE TECHNIQUES; 3 DlALOGISM AND SUBJECTIVITY: DOUBLES AND THE QUEST FOR SELF; 4 ALIENATION AND TRANSGRESSION AS FUNCTIONS OF THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF SUBJECTIVITY; 5 SUBJECTIVITY, COGNITION AND CERTAINTY; 6 SUBJECTIVITY AND HISTORY; 7 THE TEXTUAL AND DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF SUBJECTIVITY I: EXTRALITERARY GENRES
- 8 THE TEXTUAL AND DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF SUBJECTIVITY II: HISTORIOGRAPHIC GENRES9 CONCLUSION; GLOSSARY; REFERENCES; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-77894-3
- 9786612778940
- 1-135-58130-4
- 0-203-90095-2
- 9780203900956
- OCLC:
- 560046493
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