Contemporary Ghost Stories: Cyberspace in Fiction for Children and Young Adults.
This essay identifies a genre of popular fiction for children and young adults, prevalent in the 1990s and continuing into the early twenty-first century, that incorporates computers and the internet, e-mails and chat rooms, into its plots. However, along with a focus on technology, this fiction fre...
| Publicado en: | Children's Literature in Education Vol. 36; no. 2; pp. 111 - 129 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Springer Nature
Jun2005
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