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In Medias Res: The Trans-boundaries in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events
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This paper examines the trans-boundaries of contemporary children’s literature, focusing on A Series of Unfortunate Events (1999-2006; hereafter referred to as Series), by Lemony Snicket, which is becoming as popular as the Harry Potter books. As a children’s metafiction with no happily-ever-after, published under the pen name of the Gen-X bard Daniel Handler, Series subverts the ideals and norms of traditional children’s literature through the unfortunate stories of the lives of the three Baudelaire orphans. With a variety of metafictive devices, such as the frame-breaking author/narrator/ character Lemony Snicket, a nonlinear narrative, and an open ending, Series (un)invites child readers to participate in the misadventures of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire and create their own stories. Thus, the narrative always exists in medias res—in the midst of things—and rejects the conventional binary oppositions between good and evil, child and adult, reader and author, and fiction and reality. As a transboundary children’s metafiction, it not only gives the pleasure of decoding the textual mysteries but also provides lessons to the child readers for surviving their own reality.
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This paper examines the trans-boundaries of contemporary children’s literature, focusing on A Series of Unfortunate Events (1999-2006; hereafter referred to as Series), by Lemony Snicket, which is becoming as popular as the Harry Potter books. As a children’s metafiction with no happily-ever-after, published under the pen name of the Gen-X bard Daniel Handler, Series subverts the ideals and norms of traditional children’s literature through the unfortunate stories of the lives of the three Baudelaire orphans. With a variety of metafictive devices, such as the frame-breaking author/narrator/ character Lemony Snicket, a nonlinear narrative, and an open ending, Series (un)invites child readers to participate in the misadventures of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire and create their own stories. Thus, the narrative always exists in medias res—in the midst of things—and rejects the conventional binary oppositions between good and evil, child and adult, reader and author, and fiction and reality. As a transboundary children’s metafiction, it not only gives the pleasure of decoding the textual mysteries but also provides lessons to the child readers for surviving their own reality.
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