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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... its intuitive and perceptive interpreta- tion of innocence , its emotion impregnated with thought , its memorable style , is a piece of literature . Thomas Day's Sandford and Merton with its heavily pedagogic writing is only interesting ...
... its intuitive and perceptive interpreta- tion of innocence , its emotion impregnated with thought , its memorable style , is a piece of literature . Thomas Day's Sandford and Merton with its heavily pedagogic writing is only interesting ...
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... its very breadth , both in its totality and its mixture of genres even within one book , can negate its impact . Her Enchantress from the Stars is an ambitious failure in its strained attempt to meld folklore , space travel , and ...
... its very breadth , both in its totality and its mixture of genres even within one book , can negate its impact . Her Enchantress from the Stars is an ambitious failure in its strained attempt to meld folklore , space travel , and ...
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... its own .... [ It's ] Alone , Apart , Foreign . Unlike anything known to man . Alien . ' It is rather surprising that space , either its beauty or its terror , plays such a minor role in modern children's science fiction . Both aspects ...
... its own .... [ It's ] Alone , Apart , Foreign . Unlike anything known to man . Alien . ' It is rather surprising that space , either its beauty or its terror , plays such a minor role in modern children's science fiction . Both aspects ...
Contents
the Golden Ages of Childrens Literature | 18 |
Realistic Fiction | 31 |
The Problem Novel | 66 |
Copyright | |
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