Constructing Age in Children’s Literature: A Digital Approach to Guus Kuijer’s Oeuvre

This article applies digital methods to gain more insight into the role of age in the oeuvre of the Dutch author Guus Kuijer. The concept of “age” is relevant to Kuijer’s oeuvre in various ways: he is a crosswriter who has authored fiction for children, adolescents, and adults, and intergenerational relationships are a recurrent thematic feature in his work. Since discussions on age in his works have so far been limited to case-based research, this article offers a fuller understanding of the role that age plays in Kuijer’s oeuvre, in particular the explicit and implicit age norms that his boo... Mehr ...