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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... writers of the time , and especially the new writers , crossed that watershed , abandoning the bland if charming reportage of everyday child affairs . The writers of the sixties , and even more strikingly those of the seventies , came ...
... writers of the time , and especially the new writers , crossed that watershed , abandoning the bland if charming reportage of everyday child affairs . The writers of the sixties , and even more strikingly those of the seventies , came ...
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... writers who do bring the young into the present , but they see their protagonists as fairly unsophisticated and certainly not emotion- ally falling apart . While some few writers hold to this middle - of - the - road approach , an even ...
... writers who do bring the young into the present , but they see their protagonists as fairly unsophisticated and certainly not emotion- ally falling apart . While some few writers hold to this middle - of - the - road approach , an even ...
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... Writers of children's science fiction may be following the self- named " new wave " writers in adult science fiction , exemplified by J. G. Ballard and Thomas Disch . They have shifted ground even from the serious human drama of ...
... Writers of children's science fiction may be following the self- named " new wave " writers in adult science fiction , exemplified by J. G. Ballard and Thomas Disch . They have shifted ground even from the serious human drama of ...
Contents
the Golden Ages of Childrens Literature | 18 |
Realistic Fiction | 31 |
The Problem Novel | 66 |
Copyright | |
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