TY - GEN TY - GEN T1 - No kids allowed : children's literature for adults A1 - Abate, Michelle Ann, 1975- kirjoittaja LA - eng PP - Baltimore PB - Johns Hopkins University Press YR - 2020 UL - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5507303 AB - "The author analyzes what she sees as a new literary genre, emerging in the eighties, which she calls "children's literature for adults": that is, books with the visual format and verbal register of children's books but with a wry and knowing message meant for adults. The author conducts close readings of a series of books in this genre. She contends that the contemporary interest in the genre suggests that an adult's relationship with childhood may be something other than linear"-- SN - 978-1-4214-3885-6 sidottu SN - 978-1-4214-38863 nidottu KW - 1900-2099 KW - Juvenile-style literature for adults : United States. KW - American literature : 20th century : History and criticism. KW - American literature : 21st century : History and criticism. KW - Juvenile-style literature for adults. KW - American literature. KW - United States. ER -