| 紀錄類型: |
書目-語言資料,印刷品
: Monograph/item
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| 杜威分類號: |
810.9/9282 |
| 書名/作者: |
No kids allowed : : children's literature for adults // Michelle Ann Abate. |
| 作者: |
Abate, Michelle Ann, |
| 出版者: |
Baltimore : : Johns Hopkins University Press,, 2020. |
| 面頁冊數: |
viii, 231 p. : : ill. ;; 23 cm. |
| 標題: |
Juvenile-style literature for adults - United States. |
| 標題: |
American literature - History and criticism. - 20th century |
| 標題: |
American literature - History and criticism. - 21st century |
| ISBN: |
9781421438863 (pbk.) : |
| ISBN: |
9781421438856 (hbk.) |
| 書目註: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-221) and index. |
| 內容註: |
Introduction: A Is for Adult: Coloring Books, Bedtime Stories, and Picture Books for Grown-Ups -- A Book for Obsolete Children : Dr. Seuss' You're Only Old Once! and the Rise of Children's Literature for Adults -- Off to Camp: Mabel Maney's The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse, the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, and Fanfiction -- Material Matters: Art Spiegelman's In The Shadow of No Towers as a Board Book -- Baby Talk: Barbara Park's MA! There's Nothing to Do Here!, Fetal Personhood, and Child Authorship -- Learning Left From Right: Goodnight Bush, Don't Let the Republican Drive the Bus!, and the Broadside Tradition -- Not Kidding Around: Go the F**k to Sleep and the New Adult Honesty about Parenthood -- Conclusion: Both Radical and Reinforcing: The Complicated Cultural Significance of Children's Literature for Adults. |
| 摘要、提要註: |
"The author analyzes what she sees as a new literary genre, emerging in the eighties, which she calls "children's literature for adults": that is, books with the visual format and verbal register of children's books but with a wry and knowing message meant for adults. The author conducts close readings of a series of books in this genre. She contends that the contemporary interest in the genre suggests that an adult's relationship with childhood may be something other than linear"-- |