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 137
... society . Humanity's climb is a return to trains , roads , electric- ity , and cannon — the world of the late nineteenth century . The cyclic message that society will rise , only to decline , is repeated . For his time , Christopher's ...
... society . Humanity's climb is a return to trains , roads , electric- ity , and cannon — the world of the late nineteenth century . The cyclic message that society will rise , only to decline , is repeated . For his time , Christopher's ...
Page 140
... society , those that deal with future technological societies show them as crushing the individual ; in them technology is equated with authoritarianism . Indeed , John Christopher's message in The Guardi- ans ( 1970 ) is to abandon ...
... society , those that deal with future technological societies show them as crushing the individual ; in them technology is equated with authoritarianism . Indeed , John Christopher's message in The Guardi- ans ( 1970 ) is to abandon ...
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... society requires . He escapes to join the revolutionaries , and the reader is meant to think that the human spirit cannot be downed . Yet the implication that it can triumph only through force , as so much science fiction suggests ...
... society requires . He escapes to join the revolutionaries , and the reader is meant to think that the human spirit cannot be downed . Yet the implication that it can triumph only through force , as so much science fiction suggests ...
Contents
the Golden Ages of Childrens Literature | 18 |
Realistic Fiction | 31 |
The Problem Novel | 66 |
Copyright | |
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