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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... earlier books about economi- cally underprivileged children as Eve Garnett's The Family from One End Street ( 1950 ) or Eleanor Estes's The Moffats ( 1941 ) . When Town- send's Sandra and Kevin are deserted by the two grown - ups in the ...
... earlier books about economi- cally underprivileged children as Eve Garnett's The Family from One End Street ( 1950 ) or Eleanor Estes's The Moffats ( 1941 ) . When Town- send's Sandra and Kevin are deserted by the two grown - ups in the ...
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... Earlier writers tended to humanize the bad ( evil rarely had a place ) . The bad characters had recognizable faults and deficiencies . Moreover they were reformable , capable of a redeeming self - aware- ness . With a little bit of help ...
... Earlier writers tended to humanize the bad ( evil rarely had a place ) . The bad characters had recognizable faults and deficiencies . Moreover they were reformable , capable of a redeeming self - aware- ness . With a little bit of help ...
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... earlier works , the larger and more important character , society itself , has decreased in attrac- tiveness . Whereas earlier writers gave us utopias , modern ones create dystopias . Society has become an anti - hero , the metaphor of ...
... earlier works , the larger and more important character , society itself , has decreased in attrac- tiveness . Whereas earlier writers gave us utopias , modern ones create dystopias . Society has become an anti - hero , the metaphor of ...
Contents
the Golden Ages of Childrens Literature | 18 |
Realistic Fiction | 31 |
The Problem Novel | 66 |
Copyright | |
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