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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... approach . From this viewpoint , what children read is too important in its potential for society's good or ill to be made a matter of purely aesthetic consideration . Thus writing for children has tended , more than most other branches ...
... approach . From this viewpoint , what children read is too important in its potential for society's good or ill to be made a matter of purely aesthetic consideration . Thus writing for children has tended , more than most other branches ...
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... approach the historical novel poses many questions . What balance of history and fiction results in a fine histori- cal novel ? How has it changed ? Should the writer of today impose modern concepts upon the past ? Any formula for ...
... approach the historical novel poses many questions . What balance of history and fiction results in a fine histori- cal novel ? How has it changed ? Should the writer of today impose modern concepts upon the past ? Any formula for ...
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... approach . Most modern retellers , such as Roger Lancelyn Green in Tales of Greek Heroes ( 1958 ) and Doris Gates in The Warrior Goddess : Athena ( 1972 ) are faceless and styleless . The inability of modern retellers , with the ...
... approach . Most modern retellers , such as Roger Lancelyn Green in Tales of Greek Heroes ( 1958 ) and Doris Gates in The Warrior Goddess : Athena ( 1972 ) are faceless and styleless . The inability of modern retellers , with the ...
Contents
the Golden Ages of Childrens Literature | 18 |
Realistic Fiction | 31 |
The Problem Novel | 66 |
Copyright | |
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