Do Not Read Beyond This Page: Postmodernism For Children - A stylistic examination of postmodern and metafictive strategies in children’s middle grade fiction

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Do Not Read Beyond This Page: Postmodernism For Children - A stylistic examination of postmodern and metafictive strategies in children’s middle grade fiction

This thesis offers an extensive stylistic analysis of postmodern and metafictive devices in contemporary middle grade fiction (for readers aged approximately 8-12 years). Although terms like postmodernism and metafiction are often deemed culturally ‘highbrow’ or ‘avant-garde’, such strategies are ri...

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Main Author:	Wydrzynska, Ela
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2023
Subjects:	postmodernism metafiction children's literature middle grade fiction stylistics narratology narrators internal author composition-world fictive reader real reader child-readers metalepsis
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/76460/

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