Narrative pleasures in young adult novels, films, and video games [electronic resource] / Margaret Mackey

Author: Mackey, Margaret
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 258 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators: Ebooks Corporation

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Critical approaches to children's literature

Contents

Asking the questions: how we understand stories -- Beginning: designing the project -- Thinking it through: theoretical frameworks -- Paying attention: provisional observations and inferences -- Entering the fiction: the subjunctive and the deictic centre -- Orienting: finding the way forward -- Filling gaps: inferences, closure, and affect linking -- Making progress or making do: the unconsidered middle -- Concluding: reaching provisional and final judgments -- Inhabiting the story: comparative perspectives -- Understanding narrative interpretation.

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0230308325 (electronic bk.)
9780230308329 (electronic bk.)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Electronic reproduction. Perth, W.A. Available via World Wide Web.

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