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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Children’s fiction"”.
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Talking Trains, Planes and Automobiles: Machine Anthropomorphism in Children’s Fiction
… of machines have shifted from adult culture to children’s fiction. Working from the premise that children identify with childlike machines such as Thomas the Tank Engine this study examines how the relationships between machines and humans are used to model relationships between children and …
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Nomadic intertextuality and postmillennial children's gothic fiction
… of the most popular forms in which to write for children. Although children’s literature critics and educational professionals were once dubious about the value of scary stories for children, postmillennial Gothic has begun to receive critical praise as well as mass market popularity. This thesis …
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Little Bodies, Little People: Conflating the Child and the Dwarf in The History of Sir Thomas Thumb
… M. Yonge, little scholarship focuses on her children’s fiction or the ways it engages with disability. This thesis brings a disability studies reading to Yonge’s under-studied novel, <em>The History of Sir Thomas Thumb</em>, in order to examine the ways the novel borrows from similar fairy …
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Magical Girls: Contemporary Girlhood in Children’s Fantasy
… through a material feminist reading of selected children’s fantasy texts about magical girls. My central argument is that these texts deploy tropes of magical power and transformation to prompt considerations of girlhood as constructed by the entanglement of the discursive, the girl’s body, and …
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Culture and identity in Scottish children's fiction
British Children’s Literature has a long and distinguished history. In fact it could be argued that in the late seventeenth and increasingly in the eighteenth century, Britain took the lead in developing a new kind of literature especially designed for children. The Puritans were the first to …
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Keyboard warriors: Writing as a tool for positive change. Practitioner thesis
From children’s literature through to the works of poets, scholars and activists such as bell hooks and Audre Lorde, it is widely acknowledged that writing can help create a better world. In this practitioner thesis, I examine the tools that writers can use to help inspire positive social and …