| Description |
1 online resource (253 p.) |
| Series |
Children's Literature and Culture Series |
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Children's Literature and Culture Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Iconic Children's Stories About Lying -- An Etiquette of Lying -- Notes -- 1 The Whole Truth About Lying -- What Is a Lie? Part One -- Animal Deception -- Peter Dickinson -- Homo Mendax, Homo Narrans -- Lie-Detecting -- The Witches -- What Is a Lie? Part Two -- Beautiful Liars: Lying and Gender -- Lying and Gender in Young Adult Novels -- The Girls I've Been -- John Green -- Notes -- 2 Children and Lying -- Lying and Child Development |
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Children's Cognitive Development, Lying, and Children's Literature -- Sidebar: Yes, Virginia, There Is/There Is Not a Santa Claus -- The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 -- Children's Moral Development, Lying, and Children's Literature -- Wars and Lies and Children's Literature -- Counterstories, Lying, and Children's Literature -- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry -- Cinder -- Children's Emotional Development, Lying, and Children's Literature -- Games and Lying -- The Moves Make the Man -- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland -- Notes -- 3 Is Fiction a Pack of Lies? -- Children's Storytelling |
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Fiction as a Pack of Lies: Historical Perspectives -- Notes -- 4 Liars in Children's and Young Adult Literature -- Role Models for Lying in Fairy Tales -- Mark Twain and Lying -- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer -- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Models for Apprentice Liars: Learning From the Best/Worst -- The Yearling -- A Long Way From Chicago -- Treasure Island -- The Liars' Club -- Notes -- 5 Unreliable Narrators -- Unreliable Narrators in Children's and Young Adult Novels -- The Book Thief -- Self-Confessed Liars as Narrators -- Notes From a Liar and Her Dog -- The Catcher in the Rye -- Liar |
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Similes, Metaphors, and Lying -- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time -- Embassytown -- Metaphors of Storytelling -- Notes -- 6 Lying and the Künstlerroman, Part One -- The Künstlerroman: A Critical History -- The Male Künstlerroman -- The Female Künstlerroman -- The Children's Künstlerroman -- An Etiquette of Lying: A Case Study of Two Künstlerromane -- Harriet the Spy -- Emily of New Moon -- Notes -- 7 Lying and the Künstlerroman, Part Two -- Mortality, Lying, and Storytelling -- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn -- A Sound of Chariots -- The River -- Artful Liars -- Brown Girl Dreaming |
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Summer of My German Soldier -- The Golden Compass -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781003815372 |
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1003815375 |
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