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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... Plague Dogs , and John Donovan's Family are passionate outcries on humankind's blind insensitivity and inhumanity to others and to the animals cohabiting this earth . All are a far , far cry from The Wind in the Willows with its ...
... Plague Dogs , and John Donovan's Family are passionate outcries on humankind's blind insensitivity and inhumanity to others and to the animals cohabiting this earth . All are a far , far cry from The Wind in the Willows with its ...
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... Plague Dogs , Adams is an Old Testa- ment prophet thundering out his disapproval of humans and their injustice , cruelty , dishonesty , manipulation , and blind hatreds , con- trasted in a Manichaean manner with the goodness of the ...
... Plague Dogs , Adams is an Old Testa- ment prophet thundering out his disapproval of humans and their injustice , cruelty , dishonesty , manipulation , and blind hatreds , con- trasted in a Manichaean manner with the goodness of the ...
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... dogs , falsely claimed to be carriers of bubonic plague , leads to an unfortunately melodramatic denouement . While Watership Down has a distinct unity of style and plot , The Plague Dogs is structurally fragmented . Here Adams is the ...
... dogs , falsely claimed to be carriers of bubonic plague , leads to an unfortunately melodramatic denouement . While Watership Down has a distinct unity of style and plot , The Plague Dogs is structurally fragmented . Here Adams is the ...
Contents
the Golden Ages of Childrens Literature | 18 |
Realistic Fiction | 31 |
The Problem Novel | 66 |
Copyright | |
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