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 93
... legend , while Susan Cooper in The Dark Is Rising sequence and Alan Garner in The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath work in so much of Celtic and Norse myth that their narratives seem almost an extension of the original ...
... legend , while Susan Cooper in The Dark Is Rising sequence and Alan Garner in The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath work in so much of Celtic and Norse myth that their narratives seem almost an extension of the original ...
Page 208
... legends may be far richer than the versions we know . Another drawback is that indigenous tales have not yet been ... legend . Also , up until the present at least , most indigenous peoples have lacked definitive litterateurs who can ...
... legends may be far richer than the versions we know . Another drawback is that indigenous tales have not yet been ... legend . Also , up until the present at least , most indigenous peoples have lacked definitive litterateurs who can ...
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... legend appear to be mere dabblers . Why this is so may be that writers tend to feel more confident about retelling the oral and anonymous works in which all storytellers are linked because these are distinguished only by cul- tural ...
... legend appear to be mere dabblers . Why this is so may be that writers tend to feel more confident about retelling the oral and anonymous works in which all storytellers are linked because these are distinguished only by cul- tural ...
Contents
the Golden Ages of Childrens Literature | 18 |
Realistic Fiction | 31 |
The Problem Novel | 66 |
Copyright | |
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