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 87
... Alan Garner's works too are imbued with these mythic totems . Susan's bracelet in The Weirdstone of Brisingamen ... Alan Garner's Red Shift ( 1973 ) , perhaps the apotheosis of this experimenta- tion with cinematic style . With ...
... Alan Garner's works too are imbued with these mythic totems . Susan's bracelet in The Weirdstone of Brisingamen ... Alan Garner's Red Shift ( 1973 ) , perhaps the apotheosis of this experimenta- tion with cinematic style . With ...
Page 93
... Alan Garner bases The Owl Service on a complete story from the Mabinogion , but gives it a modern setting . William Mayne in Earthfasts and Penelope Lively in The Whispering Knights introduce only a slight strain of the Arthurian legend ...
... Alan Garner bases The Owl Service on a complete story from the Mabinogion , but gives it a modern setting . William Mayne in Earthfasts and Penelope Lively in The Whispering Knights introduce only a slight strain of the Arthurian legend ...
Page 95
... Alan Garner's Elidor , may also be affected by the forces of evil . Here , indeed , Garner shows a brief but superb sense of domestic comedy . Anyone who has sat impatiently watching someone else try to adjust a television set ...
... Alan Garner's Elidor , may also be affected by the forces of evil . Here , indeed , Garner shows a brief but superb sense of domestic comedy . Anyone who has sat impatiently watching someone else try to adjust a television set ...
Contents
the Golden Ages of Childrens Literature | 18 |
Realistic Fiction | 31 |
The Problem Novel | 66 |
Copyright | |
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