Robert Cormier

This compelling New Casebook is the first essay collection devoted to the work of groundbreaking American author Robert Cormier. Written by a team of international children''s literature experts, the volume offers a variety of critical and theoretical approaches to the range of Cormier''s controversial young adult novels.The newly-commissioned essays explore the author''s earlier best-known writings for teenagers as well as his later less critically examined texts, focussing on key issues such as adolescence, identity, bullying and child corruption. Recognizing Cormier''s achievement, this long-overdue critical resource is essential reading for anyone with an interest in his influential work and lasting impact on young adult fiction.>

Product details

• Authors: Adrienne E Gavin, Adrienne E. Gavin, Dr. Adrienne Gavin, Dr. Adrienne Gavin Gavin
• Assisted by: A. Gavin (Editor), Adrienne E. Gavin (Editor), Dr. Adrienne Gavin (Editor), Gavin Adrienne E. (Editor)
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2012
• EAN: 9780230313323
• ISBN: 978-0-230-31332-3
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: New Casebooks; New Casebooks (Paperback); New Casebooks; New Casebooks (Paperback)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; B, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, America—Literatures, North American Literature, children''s literature;fiction;novel, Children’s and teenage literature studies: general, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, children''s literature; fiction; novel