Fictions of adolescent carnality : sexy sinners and delinquent deviants /
Fictions of Adolescent Carnality considers one of the most controversial topics related to adolescents: their experience of desire. In fiction for adolescents, carnal desire is variously presented as a source of angst, an overwhelming experience over which one has no control, bestial, disgusting and...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2013]
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| Series: | Children's literature, culture, and cognition ;
v. 1. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | Fictions of Adolescent Carnality considers one of the most controversial topics related to adolescents: their experience of desire. In fiction for adolescents, carnal desire is variously presented as a source of angst, an overwhelming experience over which one has no control, bestial, disgusting and, just occasionally, a source of pleasure. The on-set of desire, within the Anglophone tradition, has been closely associated with the loss of innocence and the end of childhood. Drawing on a corpus of 200 narratives of adolescent desire, Kokkola examines the connections between sociological. |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 236 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027272041 9027272042 9781299585348 1299585345 |
| ISSN: | 2212-9006 ; |
