Thursday's Child: Trends and Patterns in Contemporary Children's LiteratureBeschrijving van de ontwikkeling van het hedendaagse Engelstalige kinder- en jeugdboek, in de vorm van een schets van diverse genres, toonaangevende auteurs en afzonderlijke titels. |
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... American publishers were moved to select books that reflected the new American manners and mores or that at least were not alien to them . And , it was in the 1960s that the United States came to exercise a dominant influence on writing ...
... American publishers were moved to select books that reflected the new American manners and mores or that at least were not alien to them . And , it was in the 1960s that the United States came to exercise a dominant influence on writing ...
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... American and British protagonists go to school . But what one often senses in the British books is an excitement toward learning , a growth of analytical thought , and so the protagonists ' ability to make judgments . For the most part ...
... American and British protagonists go to school . But what one often senses in the British books is an excitement toward learning , a growth of analytical thought , and so the protagonists ' ability to make judgments . For the most part ...
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... America . It is unblinking in its testimonial to history : Sometimes America the shamescape knock - rock territory losing ... American problem novel . But unlike it , realistic poetry has not fallen prey quite as blatantly to the lure of ...
... America . It is unblinking in its testimonial to history : Sometimes America the shamescape knock - rock territory losing ... American problem novel . But unlike it , realistic poetry has not fallen prey quite as blatantly to the lure of ...
Contents
the Golden Ages of Childrens Literature | 18 |
Realistic Fiction | 31 |
The Problem Novel | 66 |
Copyright | |
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