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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Page 81
... fact that fantasy , far from being " easy read- ing " as escapist writing invariably is , demands extra effort from its readers . E. M. Forster described the readers of fantasy as being asked to " pay a little extra " in order to move ...
... fact that fantasy , far from being " easy read- ing " as escapist writing invariably is , demands extra effort from its readers . E. M. Forster described the readers of fantasy as being asked to " pay a little extra " in order to move ...
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... fact . For most readers of science fiction , however , neither science nor fact has much to do with their appreciation of this , their favorite kind of fiction , and their reading gratification . That readers of the genre responded to ...
... fact . For most readers of science fiction , however , neither science nor fact has much to do with their appreciation of this , their favorite kind of fiction , and their reading gratification . That readers of the genre responded to ...
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... fact she gives almost precisely equal shares to fact and fiction , as though the mixture were made by formula . In her The Wool - Pack ( 1951 ) , for example , Nicholas and his friends unmask a group of Lombard merchants who are bent on ...
... fact she gives almost precisely equal shares to fact and fiction , as though the mixture were made by formula . In her The Wool - Pack ( 1951 ) , for example , Nicholas and his friends unmask a group of Lombard merchants who are bent on ...
Contents
the Golden Ages of Childrens Literature | 18 |
Realistic Fiction | 31 |
The Problem Novel | 66 |
Copyright | |
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