Fictions of adolescent carnality sexy sinners and delinquent deviants

Kokkola, Lydia 1967- (Author).

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

Record details

ISBN: 9789027272041 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9027272042 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9789027201553
ISBN: 9027201552
ISBN: 1299585345 (ebk)
ISBN: 9781299585348 (ebk)
Physical Description: electronic resource
remote
1 online resource.
Publisher: Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013.

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General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.