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Beyond the pale : new essays for a new era

Title
Beyond the pale : new essays for a new era / Marc Aronson.
Author
Aronson, Marc.
Publication
Lanham, Md. ; Oxford : Scarecrow Press, c2003.

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Additional Authors
Pinkney, Andrea Davis.
Description
xx, 145 p.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Scarecrow studies in young adult literature ; 9
Subject
  • Young adult literature, American > History and criticism
  • September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 > Literature and the terrorist attacks
  • Teenagers > Books and reading > United States
  • Cultural pluralism > United States
Note
  • Includes index.
Contents
Slippery slopes and proliferating prizes -- Awards that stand on solid ground / Andrea Davis Pinkney -- Responses to my critics : the claims of principle and of history -- What good is art, now? -- Of camels and needle's eyes : art and young readers -- Puritans and fundamentalists, a prolegomena -- Puritans and fundamentalists, an exploration -- The crucible : witch-hunt, and religion, crossing point of many histories -- Biography and its perils -- The pursuit of happiness : does American history matter? -- Teenagers don't want to read about teen angst, so why are so many angst-filled books published? -- What is a YA book, anyway? -- Why adults can't read boy readers -- "Woke up, got out of bed, dragged a comb across my head" : is the past knowable? -- Am I my brother's keeper?
ISBN
0810846381 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
2002151299
OCLC
vendor 2002151299
Author
Aronson, Marc.
Title
Beyond the pale : new essays for a new era / Marc Aronson.
Imprint
Lanham, Md. ; Oxford : Scarecrow Press, c2003.
Series
Scarecrow studies in young adult literature ; 9
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Pinkney, Andrea Davis.
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