Boys and Girls Forever: Children's Classics from Cinderella to Harry Potter
by:
Alison Lurie (author)
Are some of the world's most talented children's book authors essentially children themselves? In this engaging series of essays, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alison Lurie considers this theory, exploring children's classics from many eras and relating them to the authors who wrote them,...
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Are some of the world's most talented children's book authors essentially children themselves? In this engaging series of essays, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alison Lurie considers this theory, exploring children's classics from many eras and relating them to the authors who wrote them, including Little Women author Louisa May Alcott and Wizard of Oz author Frank Baum, as well as Dr. Seuss and Salman Rushdie. Analyzing these and many others, Lurie shows how these gifted writers have used children's literature to transfigure sorrow, nostalgia, and the struggles of their own experiences.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780142002520 (0142002526)
ASIN: 142002526
Publish date: December 31st 2002
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Childrens,
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
Reference,
Language,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Books About Books,
Fairy Tales
The sad thing is, this has been on my Amazon wish list forever. The good thing: I never actually bought it. While I have my own issues with literary study and criticism, sometimes I really like looking at something that means a great deal to me from an academic level. I enjoy seeing beyond my vi...
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