Author: Anne Tropp TrenskyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
The Cult of the Child in Minor American Fiction of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Anne Tropp TrenskyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
The Voice of the Child in American Literature
Author: Mary Jane HurstPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813163498
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
We as adults are reflected in our children, those in our literature as well as those in our familes, and so it is natural to want to examine their presence among us. Children and child speech are important literary elements which merit careful critical analysis. Surprisingly, comprehensive studies of the child in American fiction have not been previously attempted and fictional child speech, even that of individual characters has been almost totally ignored. Nevertheless, the language of fictional children warrants attention for several reasons. First, language and language acquisition are primary issues for children much as sexual development is primary issues for adolescents. Second, because vast linguistic efforts have been directed toward language acquisition research, a broad base of concrete information exists with which to explore the topic. And, third, language is a key which opens many doors. An understanding of fictional children's language leads to discoveries about various critical questions, sociological and psychological as well as textual and stylistic. This study examines the presentation of children and child language in American fiction by applying general linguistic principles as well as specific findings from child language acquisition research to children's speech in literary texts. It clarifies, sorts, and assesses the representations of child speech in American fiction. It tests on fictional discourse linguistic concepts heretofore applied exclusively to naturally occurring child language. The aim is not to evaluate the degree of realism in writers' presentations of child language, for that would be a simplistic and reductive enterprise. Rather, the overall object is to analyze fictional child language using linguistic methods.
Dissertation Abstracts International
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Comprehensive Dissertation Index, 1861-1972: Language and literature
Author: Xerox University MicrofilmsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
The Cult of Childhood in Nineteenth-century England and America
Author: Una StannardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
The Sacrificial Child
Author: Raymond E. BachThe Mississippi Quarterly
Author: In Whose Best Interest
Author: Susan TiffinPublisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Psychohistory Review
Author: Southern Literary Culture
Author: Marion C. MichaelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description