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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... verse , the comic and nonsensical , has continued also , but in a very much altered strain . The cutting edge of Lewis Carroll's and Edward Lear's pointed Victorian wit , somewhat blunted in the gentler light verse of the early ...
... verse , the comic and nonsensical , has continued also , but in a very much altered strain . The cutting edge of Lewis Carroll's and Edward Lear's pointed Victorian wit , somewhat blunted in the gentler light verse of the early ...
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... verse . They are as audaciously American as Spike Milligan's slapdash , comic poetry in Silly Verse for Kids ( 1959 ) is incorrigibly British . Also exercising the colloquial diction and vernacular of con- temporary children's street verse ...
... verse . They are as audaciously American as Spike Milligan's slapdash , comic poetry in Silly Verse for Kids ( 1959 ) is incorrigibly British . Also exercising the colloquial diction and vernacular of con- temporary children's street verse ...
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... Verse ( 1973 ) , but unfortunately most are static , changing little from decade to decade . In addition to these overviews , there is a glut of anthologies that concentrate on a theme , as does William Cole's collection , A Book of ...
... Verse ( 1973 ) , but unfortunately most are static , changing little from decade to decade . In addition to these overviews , there is a glut of anthologies that concentrate on a theme , as does William Cole's collection , A Book of ...
Contents
the Golden Ages of Childrens Literature | 18 |
Realistic Fiction | 31 |
The Problem Novel | 66 |
Copyright | |
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