1st Edition

The Conspiracy of the Text The Place of Narrative in the Development of Thought

By Jeff Adams Copyright 1986
160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

In The Conspiracy of the Text , first published in 1986, Jeff Adams looks at an early stage in childhood to examine the ways in which children create social organisation and moral order. Adams shows how certain narratives, such as fairy tales, serve as a foundation for this system, and does this through a fascinating linguistic analysis of a young girl’s reading of her favourite fairy tale,... Read more

1. The Structure of the Text and the Process of Reading  2. Beauty and the Beast and its Reading;  Appendices;  Bibliography;  Index

Biography

Jeff Adams