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Informationen zum Autor ADRIENNE E. GAVIN is Professor of English Literature at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Series Editor's PrefaceNotes on ContributorsIntroduction; A.E.Gavin Fade to Black: Adolescent Invisibility in the Works of Robert Cormier; K.Huenemann 'So many disguises': Questions of Identity in Robert Cormier's After the First Death and Heroes ; A.F.Humphries Fascinated by Evil: Robert Cormier as a Catholic Novelist; P.Pinsent 'Nobody out of context': Representations of Child Corruption in Robert Cormier's Crime Novels; S.Ciocia 'You have to outlast them': Bullying in The Chocolate War and Beyond the Chocolate War ; A.Cummins Mannerbund and Hitler-Jugend: Queer Perceptions of Nazis In and Beyond Robert Cormier's The Chocolate War ; H.Blackford Inducing Despair?: A Study of Robert Cormier's Young Adult Fiction; C.Walsh Facing the Truth: Robert Cormier, His Readers, and 'Reality'; S.Clancy Interactive Texts and Active Readers: Robert Cormier's 'Adolescent Poetics' in the Light of Wolfgang Iser's Theory of Aesthetic Response; D.Politis Bibliography of Robert Cormier's Work and Suggested Further ReadingIndex....
