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The World of Wonder: On children's lust for terror

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Management number 231958189 Release Date 2026/06/18 List Price US$16.89 Model Number 231958189
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Why do children love spine-chilling stories? Is it not paradoxical to associate enjoyment with creepiness, fear and terror? The subject of this book is the emotional experience of terror in children in response to the reading of children's literature. The empirical research investigates children's immediate responses to stories by authors such as Roald Dahl and Marc De Bel. In addition, it analyses the textual traits of gothic tales for children that provoke terror (mystery, magic, humour), in contrast to horror (fear, anxiety and sadness). The research shows clear differences between the feeling of terror and the emotion of horror, and between the experiences of young and adult readers. Read more

ISBN10 9059727681
ISBN13 978-9059727687
Language English
Publisher Eburon Academic Publishers
Dimensions 7 x 1.37 x 10 inches
Item Weight 2.56 pounds
Print length 546 pages
Publication date June 6, 2013

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