Gene Forrester and Tom Browne: "A Separate Peace" as School Story.

Piehl, Kathy

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Publication Date: 1983

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Gene Forrester and Tom Browne: "A Separate Peace" as School Story.

Piehl, Kathy

Children's Literature in Education, v14 n2 p67-74 Sum 1983

Suggests that by relying on and transforming traditions in the school story, John Knowles in "A Separate Peace" was able to explore both the conflicts arising naturally from the school setting and also those imposed upon an adolescent society by the larger world. (HOD)

Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Adolescents, Athletics, Educational Environment, Literary Criticism, Literary Devices

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Language: English

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