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Kite Runner / Nicolas Tredell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tredell, Nicolas, author.
- Series:
- Critical Insights.
- Critical Insights
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Redemption in literature.
- Hosseini, Khaled, 1965-.
- Hosseini, Khaled.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxiv, 291 pages).
- Other Title:
- Critical Insights
- Place of Publication:
- Ipswich, Massachusetts ; Amenia, NY : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. : Grey House Publishing, Inc., 2020.
- Summary:
- The essays in this volume look afresh at this remarkable work, considering its critical reception, its style, structure and themes, its mythical, moral, historical and political dimensions, its continued relevance in the twenty-first century, and its adaptations as a film, stage play, and graphic novel.
- Contents:
- About this volume / Nicolas Tredell
- Discovering The kite runner / Calum Kerr
- Biography of Khaled Hosseini / Angela Tredell
- From "The Great Game" to 9/11 : the historical context of The kite runner / Calum Kerr
- Catching The kite runner : a survey of critical responses / Nicolas Tredell
- A tale with two centers : narrative structure in The kite runner / Calum Kerr
- Kite and scarf : The kite runner and Mohja Kahf's The girl in the tangerine scarf / Nicolas Tredell
- "Ask him where his shame is" : war and sexual violence in The kite runner / Georgiana Banita
- Hidden in plain sight : caste and sexuality in Khaled Hosseini's The kite runner / Lucky Issar
- The kite runner two decades later : three things every reader should know / Alla Ivanchikova
- "I always felt like Baba hated me a little" : fathers and sons in The kite runner / Calum Kerr
- "You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive" : perception, sensation, and cognition in The kite runner / Nicolas Tredell
- "Avoid them like the plague" : clichés, style, and situations in The kite runner / Nicolas Tredell
- The kite runner on film : a survey of responses / Robert C. Evans
- Staging The kite runner / Nicolas Tredell
- The kite runner : the graphic novel / Nicolas Tredell
- Reconfiguring The kite runner / Nicolas Tredell
- Chronology of Khaled Hosseini's life
- Works by Khaled Hosseini
- Bibliography
- Additional resources
- About the editor
- Contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781642653786
- 1642653780
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