Bridges for the Young: The Fiction of Katherine PatersonM. Sarah Smedman, Joel Chaston Children's Literature Association and The Scarecrow Press, 2003 - 330 pàgines Children's writer Paterson is the winner of the Newbery prize for her works Bridge to Terabithia and Jacob Have I Loved. Sixteen essays, presented by Smedman (children's literature, Minnesota State U. at Moorhead) and Chaston (English, Southwest Missouri State U.), critically examine her works, discussing major themes including her commitment to Christianity, feminism, and ideas on peace. Treatments of all her major works of fiction and nonfiction are included. Also included is an essay in which Patterson reflects on her own writing, as well as a bibliography of her works Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com). |
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... offers a perspective informed by her Christian ethic . The author offers us " God at work " in and on ordinary people with somewhat extraordinary problems - yet problems with which the reader fully empathizes . Pater- son may be ...
... offers a perspective informed by her Christian ethic . The author offers us " God at work " in and on ordinary people with somewhat extraordinary problems - yet problems with which the reader fully empathizes . Pater- son may be ...
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... offers a clearer vision of this phrase from Eliot than any of the three previous authors . She describes not only ... offer very little hope . Paterson describes her philosophy of writing as follows : she writes what she sees and feels ...
... offers a clearer vision of this phrase from Eliot than any of the three previous authors . She describes not only ... offer very little hope . Paterson describes her philosophy of writing as follows : she writes what she sees and feels ...
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... offers little hope that a universe wrapped in a war - like mentality can be changed . In Preacher's Boy ( 1999 ) , Robbie Hewitt , too , moves backward to a world he has left rather than forward into a new world . Having for a time ...
... offers little hope that a universe wrapped in a war - like mentality can be changed . In Preacher's Boy ( 1999 ) , Robbie Hewitt , too , moves backward to a world he has left rather than forward into a new world . Having for a time ...
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Bridges to Literary Worlds Intertextuality and Literacy | 6 |
Narrative Strategies in Katherine | 18 |
Feminist Dialogics in Katherine Patersons Novels | 41 |
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