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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Juvenile fiction"”.
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Re-working Novelistic Sentiment: Barbauld, Smith, Edgeworth, and the Politics of Children's Fiction
… genres. I further argue that even as the juvenile fiction of Barbauld, Edgeworth, and Smith seems rather tamely oriented toward the integration of natural history with conduct lessons, the genre was in fact a vital means by which each writer weighed her own social-welfare and aesthetic …
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Fiction for the Intermediate Grades
… within the pale of this thesis, neither does juvenile fiction—good, bad, and indifferent read by students of the upper grades and high school, nor the tales intended for the primary pupils enter into the discussion. It treats simply of fiction for the intermediate grades. |These facts were …
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Steel Riders : a novel for young adult readers and, An hermeneutical examination of Steel Riders
… lived experience feeds the creative impulse. The fictional town of Sandon, where Steel Riders is set, is based on the real-life coal-mining town of Collie in Western Australia where I have lived for a number of years. My experiences before I came to Collie and my "life-relation" (Bultmann, 1986, …
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Mother what art thou? : a study of the depiction of mother figures in recent Australian and New Zealand fiction for teenagers
This thesis is a study of the representations of mothers and mother figures as found in five contemporary (published between 1984 and 1999) novels for teenagers. The focus is on western constructions of motherhood, as both normalising and universalising discourses. Utilising a variety of critical …
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Skating the Edge : A Young Adult Novel
Skating the Edge is a contemporary Young Adult novel, set partly in an adolescent psychiatric hospital in the narrated present time, and partly in the school and home of the protagonist Caitlin Michaels, in the narrated past. The novel deals with Caitlin's attempts to understand the suicide of one …