Adolescence, America, and Postwar Fiction: Developing Figures

By Rachael McLennan

Book Overview

Arguing that metaphor and the figurative are central to constructions and narrations of adolescence in America, this book uses a wide array of fictional and critical work, including texts by important authors such as Sylvia Plath, Joyce Carol Oates and Jeffrey Eugenides, to provide original and provocative new readings of adolescence.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230205518
• ISBN13: 9780230205512
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.5"