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Evil Children in the Popular Imagination / by Karen J. Renner

New York ; s.l. : Palgrave Macmillan US ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

1 Online-Ressource (VII, 213 p)

Englisch

978-1-137-59963-6

978-1-137-60321-0 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1057/978-1-137-59963-6

AP 53900  | HG 431  | HG 436      Ähnliche Literatur

HM621-HM656

306.083

bicssc: JFC ; bicssc: JFSP2 ; bisacsh: SOC047000 ; bicssc: JFC ; bisacsh: SOC047000

LOC-SH: Culture -- Study and teaching ; Youth -- Social life and customs ; Social groups ; Communication ; Film genres ; Comparative literature ; Childhood ; Adolescence ; Childhood. ; Adolescence. ; Film genres. ; Communication. ; Comparative literature. ; Youth—Social life and customs.

Focusing on narratives with supernatural components, Karen J. Renner argues that the recent proliferation of stories about evil children demonstrates not a declining faith in the innocence of childhood but a desire to preserve its purity. From novels to music videos, photography to video games, the evil child haunts a range of texts and comes in a variety of forms, including changelings, ferals, and monstrous newborns. In this book, Renner illustrates how each subtype offers a different explanation for the problem of the “evil” child and adapts to changing historical circumstances and ideologies

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Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Monstrous Births -- 2. Gifted Children -- 3. Child Ghosts -- 4. Possessed Children -- 5. Ferals -- 6. Changelings -- Primary Sources -- Works Cited -- Index