TY - BOOK ID - 78491541 TI - De-constructing Dahl PY - 2016 SN - 1443887552 9781443887557 1443882585 9781443882583 PB - Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, DB - UniCat KW - Children's stories, English KW - History and criticism. KW - Dahl, Roald KW - Criticism and interpretation. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78491541 AB - This is the first single-authored monograph on Roald Dahl since 1994. Remarkably, in spite of Dahl's commercial success, and the divided opinions he generates, very little scholarly work on the author has been produced. In the light of social cultural constructivist theory, De-constructing Dahl focuses on the critical context, the texts and the paratexts that make up the packaging of "Dahl." It offers the first thorough overview of the criticism and the language employed to discuss Dahl since the 1970s, the difficulties that using such language entails, and how it still permeates current criti ER -