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Children's Lieterature - Criticism and the Fictional Child

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Children's Lieterature - Criticism and the Fictional Child - Lesnik-Oberstein, Karín
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An original and lucid study of the figure of the child as it is presented in the rapidly expanding field of criticism of children's literature, this book argues that this body of criticism reveals the realm of childhood as constructed by the adult reader. Karin Lesnik-Oberstein demonstrates that both the criticism and the texts it studies are underpinned by the narratives of the liberal arts' educational ideals and their attendant socio-political and personal ideologies. The author places literary discussion into the ...

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Children's Lieterature - Criticism and the Fictional Child 1994, Clarendon Press, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780198119982

Hardcover