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 42
... theme used to express these traumatic rites of passage is death . It is , of course , not the death of the protagonists themselves , for then the story would end too soon ; but it is very likely a death which causes them severe ...
... theme used to express these traumatic rites of passage is death . It is , of course , not the death of the protagonists themselves , for then the story would end too soon ; but it is very likely a death which causes them severe ...
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... theme , ranging from bold nonsense to meditative lyricism . But he shares with Merriam the same attentive care for words and the interest in droll language games and stylish illustration of poetic structure . His concern with technical ...
... theme , ranging from bold nonsense to meditative lyricism . But he shares with Merriam the same attentive care for words and the interest in droll language games and stylish illustration of poetic structure . His concern with technical ...
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... theme and their love of adventure became known facts that hundreds of writers , from Ballantyne to Scott O'Dell , have since used . While Wyss capitalized on an already popular theme in adult literature , Heinrich Hoffman's ...
... theme and their love of adventure became known facts that hundreds of writers , from Ballantyne to Scott O'Dell , have since used . While Wyss capitalized on an already popular theme in adult literature , Heinrich Hoffman's ...
Contents
the Golden Ages of Childrens Literature | 18 |
Realistic Fiction | 31 |
The Problem Novel | 66 |
Copyright | |
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