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.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks

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.