Coming of Age in Children's Literature : Growth and Maturity in the Work of Phillippa Pearce, Cynthia Voigt and Jan Mark PDF
by Margaret Meek Spencer, Victor Watson
Part of the Contemporary Classics in Children's Literature series
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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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- Pages:204 pages
- Publisher:Continuum Publishing Corporation
- Publication Date:27/11/2003
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- ISBN:9781441116925
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:204 pages
- Publisher:Continuum Publishing Corporation
- Publication Date:27/11/2003
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- ISBN:9781441116925
