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Issue Details:
First known date:
2010...
vol.
41
no.
3
September
2010
of
Children's Literature in Education
est. 1970
Children's Literature in Education
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* Contents derived from the 2010 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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'Into Eternity's Certain Breadth' : Ambivalent Escape in Markus Zusak's The Book Thief,
single work
criticism
(p. 222-233)
'This article examines the consolatory possibilities presented by Markus Zusak's recent crossover novel The Book Thief, investigating the degree to which the novel delivers the simultaneous consolation and confrontation identified with children's and young adults' Holocaust texts by such critics as Adrienne Kertzer and Lawrence Baron. Contending that the supernatural nature of the novel's redemptive imagery ultimately undermines its apparently consolatory purpose, the article concludes with an analysis of the extent to which such a reading is complicated by the novel's status as crossover text, and the triangular gaze that might subsequently be attributed to its adult readers.'
Source: Editor's abstract.
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