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 67
... narratives are simply elaborations of those titles . One- or two - word descriptions can be affixed to them— Dinky Hocker ... narrative is almost always in the first person and its confes- sional tone is rigorously self - centered . The ...
... narratives are simply elaborations of those titles . One- or two - word descriptions can be affixed to them— Dinky Hocker ... narrative is almost always in the first person and its confes- sional tone is rigorously self - centered . The ...
Page 68
... narrative , which is not only incisive and sometimes poetic , but is also refreshingly colloquial . The Salinger book spawned thin fiction , without weight or resonance , whose total significance seems to be on the surface of the narrative ...
... narrative , which is not only incisive and sometimes poetic , but is also refreshingly colloquial . The Salinger book spawned thin fiction , without weight or resonance , whose total significance seems to be on the surface of the narrative ...
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... narrative dominates the scene , at least in realistic fiction , giving the book a one - dimensional vision . Even most third- person narratives have the same effect , since events are sifted through the feelings of the main character ...
... narrative dominates the scene , at least in realistic fiction , giving the book a one - dimensional vision . Even most third- person narratives have the same effect , since events are sifted through the feelings of the main character ...
Contents
the Golden Ages of Childrens Literature | 18 |
Realistic Fiction | 31 |
The Problem Novel | 66 |
Copyright | |
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