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Author Kokkola, Lydia, 1967-

Title Fictions of adolescent carnality : sexy sinners and delinquent deviants / Lydia Kokkola, LuleƄ University of Technology.

Publication Info. Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Children's literature, culture, and cognition, 2212-9006 ; v. 1
Children's literature, culture, and cognition ; v. 1. 2212-9006
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Fictions of Adolescent Carnality considers one of the most controversial topics related to adolescents: their experience of desire. In fiction for adolescents, carnal desire is variously presented as a source of angst, an overwhelming experience over which one has no control, bestial, disgusting and, just occasionally, a source of pleasure. The on-set of desire, within the Anglophone tradition, has been closely associated with the loss of innocence and the end of childhood. Drawing on a corpus of 200 narratives of adolescent desire, Kokkola examines the connections between sociological.
Contents Introduction -- Adolescence, innocence and power: Sexuality as power -- The calamitous consequences of carnality: Loss and loneliness, pregnancy and parenthood, disease and death -- Queer carnalities: Adolescent sexuality as queer sexuality -- The beastly bestiality of adolescent desire -- The abjection of abused adolescents -- The end of innocence and the on-set of knowledge? -- Corpus of novels and short stories for teenagers -- Other works of fiction -- Secondary sources.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Young adult literature, American -- History and criticism.
Young adult literature, American.
Sex role in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Sex in literature.
Sex in literature.
Teenagers -- Books and reading.
Teenagers -- Books and reading.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Kokkola, Lydia, 1967- Fictions of adolescent carnality. Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013 9789027201553 (DLC) 2013006280 (OCoLC)829097395
ISBN 9789027272041 (electronic book)
9027272042 (electronic book)
1299585345 (e-book)
9781299585348 (e-book)
9789027201553
9027201552