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ERIC Number: EJ238441
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1980-Dec
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Insight through Suffering: Cruelty in Adolescent Fiction about Boys.
Morgan, Linda O.
English Journal, v69 n9 p56-59 Dec 1980
Examines the contemporary young adult novels of four authors. Shows that studying these novels, which have believable teenage characters, can help the young to see cruelty as selfish, stupid, or vicious, and to become aware of and control their own cruel impulses. (RL)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescent Literature, Adolescents, Literary Criticism, Males, Novels, Psychological Patterns, Secondary Education
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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