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.>

Table des matières

Series Editor's Preface
Notes on Contributors
Introduction; 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 Reading
Index.

A propos de l'auteur

ADRIENNE E. GAVIN is Professor of English Literature at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. She is the co-editor of Mystery in Children's Literature (2001) and Childhood in Edwardian Fiction (2009), both of which are published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Adrienne E Gavin, Adrienne E. Gavin, Dr. Adrienne Gavin, Dr. Adrienne Gavin Gavin
• Collaboration: A. Gavin (Editeur), Adrienne E. Gavin (Editeur), Dr. Adrienne Gavin (Editeur), Gavin Adrienne E. (Editeur)
• Edition: Macmillan
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Broché
• Sortie: 01.11.2012
• EAN: 9780230313323
• ISBN: 978-0-230-31332-3
• Pages: 200
• Thèmes: New Casebooks; New Casebooks (Paperback); New Casebooks; New Casebooks (Paperback)
• Catégories: Littérature > Poésie, théâtre; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Linguistique et littérature anglaises; 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