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The Rhetoric of Character in Children's Literature

Paperback • 2002 • English • 344. edition

The Rhetoric of Character in Children's Literature

By Maria Nikolajeva

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About the book

Now available in paperback! Until now, there was no theoretical research of character in children's fiction and very few comprehensive theoretical studies of literary characters in general. In her latest intellectual foray, the author of From Mythic to Linear ponders the art of characterization. Through a variety of critical perspectives, she uncovers the essential differences between story ('what we are told') and discourse ('how we are told'), and carefully distinguishes between how these are ...Show more

Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Children’s and teenage literature studies: general
Classic fiction: general and literary

Book details

ISBN

9780810848863

Publisher

Scarecrow Press

Published year

2002

Language

English

Edition

344

Original title

The Rhetoric of Character in Children's Literature

Format

Paperback

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