Language and Literacy Series The author analyzes the way the girls discuss pleasure in becoming the eye of the reader, use film to decode the genres of literature, master forms such as fantasy and Gothic, describe the differences between reading and viewing films, and identify only with animal rather than human characters. Blackford intertwines the vivid voices of her girl respondents with her own story of moving beyond her feminist and multicultural assumptions of how children are shaped by the stories we tell in literature.
Language and Literacy Series The author analyzes the way the girls discuss pleasure in becoming the eye of the reader, use film to decode the genres o...
How often does a novel earn its author both the Presidential Medal of Freedom, awarded to Harper Lee by George W. Bush in 2007, and a spot on a list of 100 best gay and lesbian novels ? Clearly, "To Kill a Mockingbird," Lee s Pulitzer Prize winning tale of race relations and coming of age in Depression-era Alabama, means many different things to many different people. In "Mockingbird Passing," Holly Blackford invites the reader to view Lee s beloved novel in parallel with works by other iconic American writers from Emerson, Whitman, Stowe, and Twain to James, Wharton, McCullers, Capote,...
How often does a novel earn its author both the Presidential Medal of Freedom, awarded to Harper Lee by George W. Bush in 2007, and a spot on a lis...
Traces the influence of Darwin's pioneering work on developmental psychology and evolution. Child Study 1871-1911 created an enormous shift in the intellectual and artistic method of the modern novel, which is used to analyse the work of writers such as Lewis Carroll, Mark Twain, Henry James, J. M. Barrie, Oscar Wilde, Willa Cather and Mark Haddon.
Traces the influence of Darwin's pioneering work on developmental psychology and evolution. Child Study 1871-1911 created an enormous shift in the int...
