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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... English language in translation ; Beowulf and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales have to be rendered into modern English from their Anglo - Saxon and Middle English originals which , to most of us , are as indecipherable as Swahili . Yet in ...
... English language in translation ; Beowulf and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales have to be rendered into modern English from their Anglo - Saxon and Middle English originals which , to most of us , are as indecipherable as Swahili . Yet in ...
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... English . Translations constitute an integral part of the corpus of children's literature as it is read and studied in the English - speaking world and no account of contempo- rary trends , issues , and achievements in writing for ...
... English . Translations constitute an integral part of the corpus of children's literature as it is read and studied in the English - speaking world and no account of contempo- rary trends , issues , and achievements in writing for ...
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... English , he opens up to English - language children a lost world . In it are the turn - of - the- century Jewish shtetles of Poland , populated with wise men and fools , lovers , and storytellers . His art superbly evokes a single time ...
... English , he opens up to English - language children a lost world . In it are the turn - of - the- century Jewish shtetles of Poland , populated with wise men and fools , lovers , and storytellers . His art superbly evokes a single time ...
Contents
the Golden Ages of Childrens Literature | 18 |
Realistic Fiction | 31 |
The Problem Novel | 66 |
Copyright | |
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