Adolescence, America, and Postwar Fiction

Adolescence, America, and Postwar Fiction
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Download or read book Adolescence, America, and Postwar Fiction written by Rachael McLennan and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2009 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that metaphor and the figurative are central to constructions and narrations of adolescence in America, this book uses a wide array of fictional and critical work, including texts by important authors such as Sylvia Plath, Joyce Carol Oates and Jeffrey Eugenides, to provide original and provocative new readings of adolescence.


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