Lying, Truthtelling, and Storytelling in Children's and Young Adult Literature

ISBN-13: 9781032532332 / Twarda / 2023 / 280 str.

Anita Tarr

Opis

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.

Spis treści

 

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

O autorze

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.