1 option
Lying, truthtelling, and storytelling in children's and young adult literature : telling it slant / Anita Tarr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tarr, C. Anita, 1953- author.
- Series:
- Children's literature and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's literature--History and criticism.
- Children's literature.
- Truthfulness and falsehood in literature.
- Storytelling in literature.
- Young adult literature--History and criticism.
- Young adult literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 242 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
- Biography/History:
- 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.
- Contents:
- The whole truth about lying
- Children and lying
- Is fiction a pack of lies?
- Liars in children's and young adult literature
- Unreliable narrators
- Lying and the Künstlerroman, part one
- Lying and the Künstlerroman, part two.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 11, 2024).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Tarr, C. Anita, 1953- Lying, truthtelling, and storytelling in children's and young adult literature
- ISBN:
- 9781003411031
- 1003411037
- 9781003815372
- 1003815375
- 9781003815297
- 1003815294
- Publisher Number:
- 40032179688
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.