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From:The Literary Review (Vol. 36, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAdults must look inside themselves to rediscover their childlike sense of wonder at life. The adult quest for rediscovery resembles a man looking at a child on the beach looking at a seashell. Adults have become...
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From:Journal of the History of Sexuality (Vol. 30, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedTHE YEAR 2021 MARKS THE sesquicentenary of Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, a work that, like its forerunner, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), has never gone out of print....
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From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 57, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed"It comes kind of hard on a boy when lie first finds out little he is, and how big everything else is."--Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark, 108 I often wish that, as a child, I could have been as cunning as the...
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From:The American Poetry Review (Vol. 45, Issue 6)Woman, why do you involve me?--John 2:4 1. "Honey, we don't do no head transplants at Hartford Hospital," a nurse yells over her shoulder. Her name is Janice, her skin plum-black and her hair a braid circling and...
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From:Theory and Practice in Language Studies (Vol. 5, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedLewis Carroll portrays the struggle of power between the adult and child in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and displays a strong sympathy for the child Alice who is thrown into a mad and disorderly world of adults....
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From:African American Review (Vol. 36, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWhen Thunderbuns, the "big and bad matron," charges the aisle of the movie theater in Toni Cade Bambara's story "Gorilla, My Love," the kids finally "shut up and watch the simple ass picture" (Gorilla 15). She is the...
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From:Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures (Vol. 4, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedPeople write books for children and other people write about the books written for children but I don't think it's for the children at all. I think that all the people who worry so much about the children are really...
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From:The ESSE Messenger (Vol. 30, Issue 2)Philip Pullman's multi-layered contemporary children's fantasy fiction, His Dark Materials, embraces profound subjects while discussing the misconceptions of childhood. His well-known trilogy, which focuses on Lyra's...
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From:Notes and Queries (Vol. 43, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedA passage in Charles Dickens' 'Bleak House' describing the advent of a stranger wrapped in a large coat is similar to a scene in Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 'Night and Morning.' Lytton describes an encounter between William...
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From:South: A Scholarly Journal (Vol. 51, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThose with sufficient memories of childhood have no trouble recognizing that it is a queer time: being a child entails existing as an individual whose identity is defined by multiple competing structures of value, each...
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From:Post Script (Vol. 32, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed"Even at such a tiny playground as this, Lucy didn't interact much with the other children. Sarah didn't really know why they even bothered coming here except that she'd probably go crazy trapped in the house all day...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionIn the forefront of the new African-American consciousness, Toni Cade Bambara has had experience in theatre, review panels for arts councils, affirmative action projects, workshops, museums—wherever a talented and...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionAs a professional journalist and star foreign correspondent, Saki (pseudonym for H.H. Munro) had all the resource of the ready writer who, strictly on time, never fails to supply the precise number of words to fill the...
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From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 91, Issue 1)When James calls me, to tell me he has again married, I am already a new woman. I'm living in a new city, with a new job, and new friends, most of whom don't know him or understand that I was almost a mother. I wear...
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From:Harvard Review (Issue 50)WHEN I WAS ABOUT eight years old, not long after I had mastered speech and a semblance of rationality, 1 became, or rather, fashioned myself into becoming, an ideal interlocutor for my mother. She would come to me with...
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From:Studies in the Literary Imagination (Vol. 49, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedMust a narrative be realistic or true to life? Is it the authors responsibility to construct a believable narrative, complete with a realistic structure? These are among the many questions explored by Wayne C. Booth in...
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From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 63, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedEntertainment education research has shown that television programs can communicate important health information to viewers, for better (e.g., Murrar & Brauer, 2017) or for worse (e.g., Serrone et al., 2018; Thomas et...
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From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 85, Issue 2)The first time I picked up Jack * for his counseling session, he stomped out of his classroom with his arms swinging, his hands in two tight fists. As he walked down the hall ahead of me, his legs bowed out as if he'd...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)George Eliot begins Silas Marner with a quotation from Wordsworth's poem ``Michael'': A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts. This...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionMore than anything, Alice Walker's "To Hell with Dying" is about her roots as a writer. It represents, for example, one of her first real successes in African-American literary circles and her first published story, in...