Falconer The Crossover Novel

Contemporary Children's Fiction and Its Adult Readership
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-1-135-86501-6
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

Reihe: Children's Literature and Culture

"Highly recommended" by Choice

While crossover books such as Rowling's Harry Potter series have enjoyed enormous sales and media attention, critical analysis of crossover fiction has not kept pace with the growing popularity of this new category of writing and reading. Falconer remedies this lack with close readings of six major British works of crossover fiction, and a wide-ranging analysis of the social and cultural implications of the global crossover phenomenon. A uniquely in-depth study of the crossover novel, Falconer engages with a ground-breaking range of sources, from primary texts, to child and adult reader responses, to cultural and critical theory.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Falconer, Rachel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editor’s Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction A Decade of Border Crossing

Chapter 1 Kiddults at Large

Chapter 2 Harry Potter, Lightness and Death

Chapter 3 Coming of Age in a Fantasy World:

Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials

Chapter 4 Seeing Things Big:

Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

Chapter 5 Adolescence and Abjection:

Geraldine McCaughrean’s The White Darkness

Chapter 6 The Search for Roots:

David Almond’s Clay

Chapter 7 Re-reading Childhood Books:

C.S. Lewis’s The Silver Chair

Conclusion Crossing Thresholds of Time

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rachel Falconer is a Reader in English Literature at the University of Sheffield. She has published criticism in the areas of classical, early modern, and contemporary literature and narrative theory. Her recent books include Hell in Contemporary Literature, and Face to Face: Mikhail Bakhtin in Russia and the West.