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Author Blackford, Holly Virginia.

Title Out of this world : why literature matters to girls / Holly Virginia Blackford ; foreword by Carol Christ.

Publication Info. New York : Teachers College Press, [2004]
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  028.5 B628O    Check Shelf
Description xiv, 178 pages ; 24 cm.
Series Language and literacy series
Language and literacy series (New York, N.Y.)
Contents Introduction. Literature: vive la différence -- Seeing and imagining the text -- Going "off-world" for insight -- "It's like a fantasy world": gender and form -- The genre of identity: suspense, action, quest, and gothic form -- Cherchez la femme: the problem of verisimilitude -- Film and "reelism" -- Beauty in the beast: the power of metamorphosis -- Coda: Tapping girls' responses to reading -- Appendix. Interviews as texts: a methodological discussion.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-168) and index.
Subject Girls -- Books and reading -- United States.
Girls -- United States -- Interviews.
Reader-response criticism -- United States.
ISBN 0807744670 (acid-free paper)
0807744662 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
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