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Language and Control in Children's Literature

By Kirsten Malmkjaer , Murray Knowles

Book information

Year
1995
ISBN
9780203419755, 9780415086240, 0203419758, 0415086248
LCC
PR830.C513 K58 1996
Open Library ID
OL1275750M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
897 kB (918903 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
296\297
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This study examines the work of children's writers from the 19th and 20th centuries in order to expose the persuasive power of language. Looking at the work of 19th century English writers of juvenile fiction, Knowles and Malmkjaer expose the colonial and class assumptions on which the books were predicated. In the modern "teen" novel and the work of Roald Dahl the authors find contemporary attempts to control children within socially established frameworks. Other authors discussed include, Oscar Wilde, E. Nesbit, Lewis Carroll and C.S. Lewis.

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