«چیزهایی درباره‌ی من»: قراردادهای کج‌وکوله در نامه‌های کودکان به نویسندگان محبوبشان

This article is a study of letters written by American children to authors of juvenile fiction. It emphasizes the rhetorical and material choices children made in bridging the distance between themselves as writers and the authors who were to receive the letters. Focused on notions of convention, the study uses the theoretical concept of the slant to analyze the way the child writers conformed to conventions of writing and communication while also rendering those expectations askew. Ultimatel...