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 14
... plot , characterization , and style . The topics , such as divorce , alcohol- ism , drugs , sex , racism , and particularly alienation , matched society's concerns in a narrow sense as did religion and morality in children's books from ...
... plot , characterization , and style . The topics , such as divorce , alcohol- ism , drugs , sex , racism , and particularly alienation , matched society's concerns in a narrow sense as did religion and morality in children's books from ...
Page 67
... plot and characterization , its resolution has wide applications , and it grows out of the personal vision of the writer . In problem novels the conflict stems from the writer's social conscience : it is specific rather than universal ...
... plot and characterization , its resolution has wide applications , and it grows out of the personal vision of the writer . In problem novels the conflict stems from the writer's social conscience : it is specific rather than universal ...
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... plot and the characters of A Wrinkle in Time are strained . Meg and her five - year - old brother Charles William ... plot to rescue the Queen . Penelope knows the end result and realizes the inevitability of historic destiny . The plot ...
... plot and the characters of A Wrinkle in Time are strained . Meg and her five - year - old brother Charles William ... plot to rescue the Queen . Penelope knows the end result and realizes the inevitability of historic destiny . The plot ...
Contents
the Golden Ages of Childrens Literature | 18 |
Realistic Fiction | 31 |
The Problem Novel | 66 |
Copyright | |
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