At Arm's Length: A Rhetoric of Character in Children's and Young Adult Literature

by Mike Cadden

Book Overview

Literary critics and authors have long argued about the importance or unimportance of an author's relationship to readers. What can be said about the rhetorical relationship that exists between author and reader? How do authors manipulate character, specifically, to modulate the emotional appeal of character so a reader will feel empathy, awe, even delight?

In At Arm's Length: A Rhetoric of Character in Children's and Young Adult Literature,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496834593
• ISBN13: 9781496834591
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"