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 91
... hand - to - hand combat . But the real evil is met only at the end : " the great enemy ; He Whose Name is Taken Away , that Prince of Heaven whom he had always called Lucifer , Star of the Morning . " In a purely literary sense , this ...
... hand - to - hand combat . But the real evil is met only at the end : " the great enemy ; He Whose Name is Taken Away , that Prince of Heaven whom he had always called Lucifer , Star of the Morning . " In a purely literary sense , this ...
Page 253
... hand pictures and brief text carry the mother's adjurations , while the right - hand wordless pictures show Shirley's imagination at work as she ignores her mother's " do's " and " don'ts , " lost as she is in a classic pirate fantasy ...
... hand pictures and brief text carry the mother's adjurations , while the right - hand wordless pictures show Shirley's imagination at work as she ignores her mother's " do's " and " don'ts , " lost as she is in a classic pirate fantasy ...
Page 291
... hand , tends more toward the imaginative reconstruction of events at the expense of a deep treat- ment of characters . Who is to say which is the better way to treat history in fiction ? We are enriched by being able to read in English ...
... hand , tends more toward the imaginative reconstruction of events at the expense of a deep treat- ment of characters . Who is to say which is the better way to treat history in fiction ? We are enriched by being able to read in English ...
Contents
the Golden Ages of Childrens Literature | 18 |
Realistic Fiction | 31 |
The Problem Novel | 66 |
Copyright | |
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