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 80
... Fantasists wrestle with the great complexities of existence — life , death , time , space , good and evil - and a child's struggle to find its place within these awesome concepts . Yet these are only one side of the fantasy . Fantasists ...
... Fantasists wrestle with the great complexities of existence — life , death , time , space , good and evil - and a child's struggle to find its place within these awesome concepts . Yet these are only one side of the fantasy . Fantasists ...
Page 81
... fantasists do have us retreat or escape from the ordinary world into a strange " secret garden , " they force us at the same time to confront the " truths " - truths that are often awesome and even bitter . The proof of this assertion ...
... fantasists do have us retreat or escape from the ordinary world into a strange " secret garden , " they force us at the same time to confront the " truths " - truths that are often awesome and even bitter . The proof of this assertion ...
Page 92
... fantasists seem to be saying , " The good is what we have , so hold fast . " Thus , once the children in Penelope Lively's The Whispering Knights ( 1971 ) have battled Morgan Le Fay to save the village from a freeway , all returns to ...
... fantasists seem to be saying , " The good is what we have , so hold fast . " Thus , once the children in Penelope Lively's The Whispering Knights ( 1971 ) have battled Morgan Le Fay to save the village from a freeway , all returns to ...
Contents
the Golden Ages of Childrens Literature | 18 |
Realistic Fiction | 31 |
The Problem Novel | 66 |
Copyright | |
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