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The hidden adult : defining children's literature / Perry Nodelman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nodelman, Perry.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's literature--History and criticism.
- Children--Books and reading.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (403 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Hidden Adult is a focused and sophisticated analysis of children's literature and a major contribution to the theory and criticism of the genre.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Six Texts
- Different Texts, Same Genre
- Language: The Text and Its Shadows
- Focalization: Who Sees and What They Know
- Desire Confronts Knowledge
- Home and Away: Essential Doubleness
- Variation
- Summary
- 2 Exploring Assumptions
- Reading as an Adult
- Making Choices: Exploring Representativeness
- Assumptions about Genre
- Genre and Field
- Genre and Genres
- 3 Children's Literature as a Genre
- Defining Children's Literature
- No Genre
- Different but Not Distinct
- Literature and Children
- For the Good of Children
- Literature for Boys and Literature for Girls
- Middle-Class Subjectivity
- Doubleness
- Specific Markers
- About Children
- The Eyes of Children
- Simplicity and Sublimation
- The Hidden Adult
- Narrator and Narratee
- Showing, Not Telling
- Happy Endings
- Achieving Utopia
- Binaries
- Repetition
- A Comprehensive Statement?
- 4 The Genre in the Field
- Sameness and Difference
- The Sameness of Children's Literature
- Different Children's Literatures: The Effects of Personality and History
- Different Children's Literatures: The Effects of Nationality
- The Genre in the Field
- Distinctive Texts in the Genre
- Conclusion: Children's Literature as Nonadult?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-377) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801895340 (electronic book)
- 0-8018-9534-0
- OCLC:
- 549558363
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