Coming of Age in Children's Literature - Growth Maturity in Work of Phillippa Pearce, Cynthia Voigt Jan Mark

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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• Authors: Margaret Meek, Margaret Meek Spencer, Margaret Meek Spencer, Victor Watson, Watson Victor
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780826458421
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-5842-1
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Contemporary Classics of Child; Contemporary Classics of Child; Contemporary Classics in Children's Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Englisch, English, Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, allgemein, LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature, Literary studies: general, Children's & teenage literature studies, Children’s and teenage literature studies: general