“I’ll tell you what : I’ll just steer”: an examination of metafictive narrative strategies in a selection of picturebooks by Mo Willems
This thesis explores the use of metafictive literary devices in a selection of picturebooks by author-illustrator Mo Willems as “radical” (Dresang 19), a “construction” (Nikolajeva and Scott 220; Sipe 107), a “puzzle” (Nodelman and Reimer 298), and as “processes of storytelling” (Lewis 92) in which...
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University of British Columbia
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/47139 |