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1 online resource. |
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Criticial insights |
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Critical insights.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
About this volume / Kent Baxter -- On "coming of age" / Kent Baxter -- Critical contexts. The critical reception of coming-of-age literature / Kent Baxter -- In search of Mildred Taylor's womanists: feminist agency in the Logan family novels / Rachelle D. Washington and Michelle H. Martin -- Coming of age in history / Steven Mintz -- "Not now- not yet": developmental difficulties in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea" / Beth A. Wightman -- Critical readings. Coming of age in Homer's Ithaca / William G. Thalmann -- Coming of age in Shakespeare / Heather James -- A romantic poet comes of age over and over again / Richard Matlak -- The varieties of adolescent experience: coming of age in Alcott's Little women / Anne K. Phillips and Greg Eiselein -- Irony and moral development in adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Roberta Seelinger Trites -- Stephen Dedalus and the other: interiority, language, and gender in A portrait of the artist as a Young man / Vincent J. Cheng -- "Missing everybody": language and identity in The catcher in the rye / Annette Wannamaker -- Coming of age in Bronzeville: Gwendolyn Brooks's Annie Allen / Jane Hedley -- Ready or not: Antonio Marez y Luna is thrown into the world of Rudolfo Anaya's Bless me Ultima / Phillip Serrato -- Song for a murdered cousin: violence in The woman warrior / Tomo Hattori -- School stories: education, coming of age, and the American Indian literary tradition / Amelia V. Katanski -- Resources -- Additional works on coming of age -- Bibliography -- About the editor -- Contributors. |
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Print version record. |
| Summary |
This volume presents a variety of new essays on the perennial coming-of-age theme. Four essays survey the critical conversation regarding the theme, explore its cultural and historical contexts, and offer close and comparative readings of key texts in the genre. Other essays explore the theme in depth through a variety of critical approaches. |
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Bildungsromans -- History and criticism.
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Teenagers in literature.
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Adolescence in literature.
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Coming of age.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Adolescence in literature. (OCoLC)fst00797004
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Bildungsromans. (OCoLC)fst00831688
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Coming of age. (OCoLC)fst01763769
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Teenagers in literature. (OCoLC)fst01145671
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Added Author |
Baxter, Kent.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Coming of age. Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, 2013 9781429837316 (DLC) 2012019658 (OCoLC)777601660 |
| ISBN |
9781429837798 (electronic bk.) |
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1429837799 (electronic bk.) |
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