Coming of Age in Children's Literature

Coming of Age in Children's Literature
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 204
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ISBN-10 : 9781441116925
ISBN-13 : 1441116923
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Book Synopsis Coming of Age in Children's Literature by : Margaret Meek Spencer

Download or read book Coming of Age in Children's Literature written by Margaret Meek Spencer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2003-11-27 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by Morag Styles and written by an interational team of acknowledged experts, this series provides jargon-free, critical discussion and a comprehensive guide to literary and popular texts for children. Each book introduces the reader to a major genre of children's literature, covering key authors, major works and contexts in which those texts are published. Margaret Meek and Victor Watson provide a profound and revealing examiniation of the treatment of personal development, maturation and rites of passage in literature written for children and adolescents. Including a broad survey of the theme across a number of genres and an in-depth analysis of the work of key writers, the authors work towards an answer to the question "What is a classic?" Margaret Meek is Reader Emeritus at the Institute of Education in London. Victor Watson is Assistant Director of Research at Homerton College, Cambridge.


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