The Mad Tea Party Maxim: Or How Books Don't Always Mean What the Writer Intended.

Babbitt, Natalie

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Publication Date: 1991

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The Mad Tea Party Maxim: Or How Books Don't Always Mean What the Writer Intended.

Babbitt, Natalie

Children's Literature in Education, v22 n2 p89-96 Jun 1991

Explores the difference between people or authors meaning what they say and saying what they mean. Concludes that, whether authors say what they mean and mean what they say, readers will take from books what they wish to take. (PRA)

Descriptors: Authors, Childrens Literature, Elementary Secondary Education, Intention, Literary Criticism, Writing (Composition)

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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