Lydia Kokkola

List of John Benjamins publications in which Lydia Kokkola is involved.

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Fictions of Adolescent Carnality: Sexy sinners and delinquent deviants

Lydia Kokkola

Fictions of Adolescent Carnality considers one of the most controversial topics related to adolescents: their experience of desire. In fiction for adolescents, carnal desire is variously presented as a source of angst, an overwhelming experience over which one has no control, bestial, disgusting… read more

[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition, 1] 2013. x, 236 pp.

Kokkola, Lydia 2009 "Instruction with delight": The narrator's voice in John Newbery's early English children's books Instructional Writing in English: Studies in honour of Risto Hiltunen, Peikola, Matti, Janne Skaffari and Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen (eds.), pp. 161–185 | Article

Kokkola, Lydia 2009 Truthful (hi)stories in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost Humane Readings: Essays on literary mediation and communication in honour of Roger D. Sell, Finch, Jason, Martin Gill, Anthony Johnson, Iris Lindahl-Raittila, Inna Lindgren, Tuija Virtanen and Brita Wårvik (eds.), pp. 119–133 | Article

This paper examines the ways in which fiction and historical fact are combined in Michael Ondaatje’s novel, Anil’s Ghost (2000), which set against the backdrop of the civil war in Sri Lanka. Kokkola argues that the novel foregrounds the contested nature of truth by questioning its value in the… read more

Kokkola, Lydia 2002 Early immersion reading: The narrative mode and meaning-making Children's Literature as Communication: The ChiLPA project, Sell, Roger D. (ed.), pp. 237–262 | Chapter

Kokkola, Lydia 2002 The unspeakable: Children’s fiction and the Holocaust Children's Literature as Communication: The ChiLPA project, Sell, Roger D. (ed.), pp. 213–233 | Chapter