The Voice of the Child in American Literature: Linguistic Approaches to Fictional Child Language

Voorkant
University Press of Kentucky, 1 jan 1990 - 185 pagina's
A companion to The Directory of rural development projects, Voices... encourages networking the exchange of significant means to sustainable development. The effective principles require accomodation to the subject country's culture, system of government, stage of economic growth and resource availability related to local needs. A study of the child figure in American fiction and of the language of children in literature, based on close readings of novels and short stories, from the classics of Hawthorne, James, and Cather to modern and contemporary works by Henry Roth, William Peter Blatty and Toni Morrison. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Introduction
5
The Necessity of Language
10
The Winding Sheet of Meditative Verse
34
Laughter and Death
72
Breaking Verbal Icons
93
Islands of Meaning
124
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