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Teach The Children: Education And Knowledge In Recent Children's Fantasy, Elisabeth Rose Gruner
Teach The Children: Education And Knowledge In Recent Children's Fantasy, Elisabeth Rose Gruner
English Faculty Publications
This essay is an investigation into how learning is portrayed in children's books. It starts from two premises: first, that at least one origin of children's literature is in didacticism, and that learning and pedagogy continue to be important in much of the literature we provide for children today. Thus, for example, David Rudd claims that most histories of children's literature on "the tension between instruction and entertainment," and that the genre as we know it develops within, among other things, "an educational system promoting literacy" (29, 34). Seth Lerer's recent Children's Literature: A Reader's History similarly traces the origins …
[Introduction To] Political Humor Under Stalin: An Anthology Of Unofficial Jokes And Anecdotes, David Brandenberger
[Introduction To] Political Humor Under Stalin: An Anthology Of Unofficial Jokes And Anecdotes, David Brandenberger
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Political Humor Under Stalin is an anthology of jokes, wisecracks, and satire from the Soviet 1930s and 40s that provides a glimpse of everyday dissembling and dissent in one of the modern world's most repressive societies. More than merely a joke book, it offers no less than a folkloric counter narrative to the "official" history of the USSR, as well as a ground-breaking discussion of the culture of joke-telling under Stalin.
Apodemus, Emily Smith
I Found Lost, Emily Lathe
Late December, Elizabeth Robinson
Le Roi, Laissez-Le Dormir, Victor Wasserman
The Night After Christmas, John Alulis
Modern Epoch, Andrew Pasiuk
Extinct, Katie Fishman
Elaine Davidson Finds A Home, Lucy Hester
Master Craftsman, Schuyler Swartout
Stealing, Laurie Guilmartin
Booby Trap, Dawn Hackett
When A Door Closes, A Curtain Opens, Jill Eisenberg
When A Door Closes, A Curtain Opens, Jill Eisenberg
The Messenger
Office of International Education, 2009 International Education Writing Contest, 1st Place
Apology To A Secret Lover, Stephanie Swisher
Apology To A Secret Lover, Stephanie Swisher
The Messenger
Office of International Education, 2009 International Education Writing Contest, 2nd Place
Bridgeport, Madeline Gordon