Description: Secrets, Lies and Children's Fiction, Hardcover by Mallan, Kerry, ISBN 1137274654, ISBN-13 9781137274656, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "Many children learn from a very young age about the importance of always telling the truth. They also learn that telling lies is necessary if they are to survive in a world that paradoxically values the truth but practises deception. Secrets, Lies and Children's Fiction demonstrates how this paradox is played out in texts for children and young adults, how secrets and lies may be a necessary means for survival and adaptation, and how mendacity may have its virtues. Kerry Mallan examines a wide selectionof international texts, spanning several decades, including picturs, novels, and films. By drawing on diverse fields of scholarship, Mallan makes important connections between children's literature, philosophical and moral complexities, and cultural and social tensions. Secrets, Lies and Children's Fiction provokes thinking about what passes as 'the truth', the consequences of truth telling and lying, and the sacrificial arbitrariness of scapegoating. "--
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Book Title: Secrets, Lies and Children's Fiction
Number of Pages: Xii, 238 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan The Limited
Item Height: 0.6 in
Topic: Children's Studies, Children's & Young Adult Literature, Short Stories, Sociology / Marriage & Family
Publication Year: 2013
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Literary Criticism, Juvenile Fiction, Social Science
Item Weight: 147.7 Oz
Author: Kerry Mallan
Item Length: 11.1 in
Item Width: 5.7 in
Book Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Ser.
Format: Hardcover
