"Into Eternity"s Certain Breadth": Ambivalent Escapes in Markus Zusak's "The Book Thief"

Autor/in	Adams, Jenni
Titel	"Into Eternity"s Certain Breadth": Ambivalent Escapes in Markus Zusak's "The Book Thief"
Quelle	In: Children's Literature in Education, 41 (2010) 3, S.222-233 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0045-6713
DOI	10.1007/s10583-010-9111-2
Schlagwörter	Novels; Adults; Childrens Literature; Figurative Language; Philosophy; Death; Literary Criticism; Adolescent Literature + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Novel; Roman; 'Children''s literature'; Kinderliteratur; Philosophie; Sterbefall; Tod; Todesfall; Literaturkritik; Adolescent; Adolescents; Literature; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; literatur
Abstract	This article examines the consolatory possibilities presented by Markus Zusak's recent crossover novel "The Book Thief," investigating the degree to which the novel delivers the simultaneous consolation and confrontation identified with children's and young adults' Holocaust texts by such critics as Adrienne Kertzer and Lawrence Baron. Contending that the supernatural nature of the novel's redemptive imagery ultimately undermines its apparently consolatory purpose, the article concludes with an analysis of the extent to which such a reading is complicated by the novel's status as crossover text, and the triangular gaze that might subsequently be attributed to its adult readers. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10