Robert Cormier [Hardcover]

This compelling New Casebook is the first essay collection devoted to the work of groundbreaking American author Robert Cormier. Written by a team of international children's literature experts, the volume offers a variety of critical and theoretical approaches to the range of Cormier's controversial young adult novels.

The newly-commissioned essays explore the author's earlier best-known writings for teenagers as well as his later less critically examined texts, focussing on key issues such as adolescence, identity, bullying and child corruption. Recognizing Cormier's achievement, this long-overdue critical resource is essential reading for anyone with an interest in his influential work and lasting impact on young adult fiction.
Series Editor's Preface.- Notes on Contributors.- Introduction; A.E.Gavin.- Fade to Black: Adolescent Invisibility in the Works of Robert Cormier; K.Huenemann.- 'So many disguises': Questions of Identity in Robert Cormier's After the First Death and Heroes; A.F.Humphries.- Fascinated by Evil: Robert Cormier as a Catholic Novelist; P.Pinsent.- 'Nobody out of context': Representations of Child Corruption in Robert Cormier's Crime Novels; S.Ciocia.- 'You have to outlast them': Bullying in The Chocolate War and Beyond the Chocolate War; A.Cummins.- Mannerbund and Hitler-Jugend: Queer Perceptions of Nazis In and Beyond Robert Cormier's The Chocolate War; H.Blackford.- Inducing Despair?: A Study of Robert Cormier's Young Adult Fiction; C.Walsh.- Facing the Truth: Robert Cormier, His Readers, and 'Reality'; S.Clancy.- Interactive Texts and Active ReaderslÓÖ