Language and Ideology in Children's Fiction (Language In Social Life)

by John Stephens (Author)

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  1992

  $5.86

  An authoritative analysis of narratives written for children, focusing on the ideologies pervading texts and the ways in which creative literature represents the individual both as subject and as agent. Uses a wide range of international examples of particular types of children's books: old and new fairy tales, fantasy and historical fiction and poetry.