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Presenting Cynthia Voigt / [electronic resource] Suzanne Elizabeth Reid.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Twayne's United States authors series ; TUSAS 643. | Twayne's United States authors series. Young adult authors.Publication details: New York : Twayne Publishers ; London : Prentice Hall International, c1995.Description: xv, 133 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0805782192 (alk. paper)
  • 9780805782196 (alk. paper)
Other title:
  • Cynthia Voigt
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Presenting Cynthia Voigt.DDC classification:
  • 813/.54 20
LOC classification:
  • PS3572.O33 Z85 1995
Other classification:
  • 18.06
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Also issued online.
Contents:
1. Cynthia Voigt: Adventurer Beneath the Surface -- 2. Looking Beneath the Tip of the Iceberg: Defining the Self (The Callender Papers, Tell Me If the Lovers Are Losers) -- 3. Reaching Out, Holding On, and Letting Go: Self-Development in Cynthia Voigt's Tillerman Series (Homecoming, Dicey's Song, A Solitary Blue, The Runner, Come a Stranger, Sons from Afar, Seventeen Against the Dealer) -- 4. Learning to Live: Ways of Knowing (Izzy, Willy-Nilly, Building Blocks, Tree by Leaf, The Vandemark Mummy) -- 5. Heroic Ventures (Jackaroo, On Fortune's Wheel, The Wings of a Falcon) -- 6. Daring to Live Authentically (David and Jonathan, Glass Mountain, Orfe, When She Hollers) -- 7. Voigt's Essential Ideas: A Thematic Overview.
Summary: In this first book-length introduction to the writer and her work, Suzanne Elizabeth Reid presents a finely crafted analysis of the complexities of plot, character, language, and theme distinguishing Voigt's fiction. Writing in an accessible style, Reid commences with an intriguing biographical sketch that draws on a rare, unpublished interview. Subsequent chapters then examine each of the published works, grouped by the central motifs Reid identifies in Voigt's fiction: defining the self; reaching out, holding on, and letting go; ways of knowing; heroic ventures; and daring to live authentically. A closing chapter, "Voigt's Essential Ideas," synthesizes and crystallizes the elements that make this writer one of the most gifted voices in young adult literature today.Summary: Presenting Cynthia Voigt provides an engaging resource for middle and high school students and their teachers; librarians; and college and graduate students of young adult literature. Complementing the volume are a chronology, notes and references, selected bibliography, and index, as well as photographs.
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Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-130) and index.

Also issued online.

1. Cynthia Voigt: Adventurer Beneath the Surface -- 2. Looking Beneath the Tip of the Iceberg: Defining the Self (The Callender Papers, Tell Me If the Lovers Are Losers) -- 3. Reaching Out, Holding On, and Letting Go: Self-Development in Cynthia Voigt's Tillerman Series (Homecoming, Dicey's Song, A Solitary Blue, The Runner, Come a Stranger, Sons from Afar, Seventeen Against the Dealer) -- 4. Learning to Live: Ways of Knowing (Izzy, Willy-Nilly, Building Blocks, Tree by Leaf, The Vandemark Mummy) -- 5. Heroic Ventures (Jackaroo, On Fortune's Wheel, The Wings of a Falcon) -- 6. Daring to Live Authentically (David and Jonathan, Glass Mountain, Orfe, When She Hollers) -- 7. Voigt's Essential Ideas: A Thematic Overview.

In this first book-length introduction to the writer and her work, Suzanne Elizabeth Reid presents a finely crafted analysis of the complexities of plot, character, language, and theme distinguishing Voigt's fiction. Writing in an accessible style, Reid commences with an intriguing biographical sketch that draws on a rare, unpublished interview. Subsequent chapters then examine each of the published works, grouped by the central motifs Reid identifies in Voigt's fiction: defining the self; reaching out, holding on, and letting go; ways of knowing; heroic ventures; and daring to live authentically. A closing chapter, "Voigt's Essential Ideas," synthesizes and crystallizes the elements that make this writer one of the most gifted voices in young adult literature today.

Presenting Cynthia Voigt provides an engaging resource for middle and high school students and their teachers; librarians; and college and graduate students of young adult literature. Complementing the volume are a chronology, notes and references, selected bibliography, and index, as well as photographs.

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