商品簡介
With their innovative themes, colorful characters, and slightly skewed approach, books written for children have become increasingly popular in adult markets. Falconer (English literature, U. of Sheffield) does not believe this as a result of a lack of intelligence amongst grownups but instead celebrates youth culture in a society that places a premium on quickness, flexibility and lightness. She feels the crossover of adults to children's fiction is a protest, and a desire for roots and for communally shared truths. She reviews the crossover market in Britain and gives the details on such examples as Rowling, Pullman, and Haddon, noting their journeys into the dark as well as into the light, and closes with a very good chapter on the work of C. S. Lewis (and others considered to have written children's classics) and their present popularity in film and on the page. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Rachel Falconer is a Reader in English Literature at the University of Sheffield. She has published criticism in the areas of classical, early modern, and contemporary literature and narrative theory. Her recent books include Hell in Contemporary Literature, and Face to Face: Mikhail Bakhtin in Russia and the West.
