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This compelling New Casebook is the first essay collection devoted to the work of groundbreaking American author Robert Cormier. Written by a team of international children's literature experts, the volume offers a variety of critical and theoretical approaches to the range of Cormier's controversial young adult novels.
The newly-commissioned essays explore the author's earlier best-known writings for teenagers as well as his later less critically examined texts, focussing on key issues such as adolescence, identity, bullying and child corruption. Recognizing Cormier's achievement, this long-overdue critical resource is essential reading for anyone with an interest in his influential work and lasting impact on young adult fiction.
Contents
Series Editor's Preface
Notes on Contributors
Introduction; A.E.Gavin
Fade to Black: Adolescent Invisibility in the Works of Robert Cormier; K.Huenemann
'So many disguises': Questions of Identity in Robert Cormier's After the First Death and Heroes ; A.F.Humphries
Fascinated by Evil: Robert Cormier as a Catholic Novelist; P.Pinsent
'Nobody out of context': Representations of Child Corruption in Robert Cormier's Crime Novels; S.Ciocia
'You have to outlast them': Bullying in The Chocolate War and Beyond the Chocolate War ; A.Cummins
Mannerbund and Hitler-Jugend: Queer Perceptions of Nazis In and Beyond Robert Cormier's The Chocolate War ; H.Blackford
Inducing Despair?: A Study of Robert Cormier's Young Adult Fiction; C.Walsh
Facing the Truth: Robert Cormier, His Readers, and 'Reality'; S.Clancy
Interactive Texts and Active Readers: Robert Cormier's 'Adolescent Poetics' in the Light of Wolfgang Iser's Theory of Aesthetic Response; D.Politis
Bibliography of Robert Cormier's Work and Suggested Further Reading
Index.
