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Children's Literature: Criticism and the Fictional Child


Book Description
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 a... More
Book Information
PublisherOxford University Press Inc
BindingHardcover
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages264
ISBN-100198119984
ISBN-13978-0198119982
Publication Date06/23/1994
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About Karin Lesnik-Oberstein (Author) : All of Karin Lesnik-Oberstein’s academic work has been based on inter- and multi- disciplinary research on childhood as a cultural and historical construction. Her first monograph (published by the ... more
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