LYING TRUTHTELLING AND STORYTELL - Telling It Slant

This volume explores the pervasiveness of lying as well as the necessity for lying in our society; the origins of lying as connected to language acquisition, and the realization that storytelling is both lying and truthtelling.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter One: The Whole Truth About Lying
Chapter Two: Children and Lying
Chapter Three: Is Fiction a Pack of Lies?
Chapter Four: Liars in Children's and Young Adult Literature
Chapter Five: Unreliable Narrators
Chapter Six: Lying and the Künstlerroman, Part One
Chapter Seven: Lying and the Künstlerroman, Part Two
Conclusion

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Anita Tarr
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032532349
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3253234-9
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: Children's Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Children's & teenage literature studies, Children’s and teenage literature studies: general, Young Adult;Lying;Truth;Children's Literature