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Peer reviewedMcGavran, James Holt, Jr. – Children's Literature in Education, 1986
Examines the Christian, humanist, and romantic dimensions of "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson. (HOD)
Descriptors: Authors, Characterization, Childrens Literature, Christianity
Peer reviewedWolf, Virginia L. – Children's Literature in Education, 1982
Discusses the vision of harmony in the memory of Laura Ingalls Wilder and argues that her books are more nearly romance than fiction. (HOD)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Language Usage, Literary Criticism, Literary Styles
Peer reviewedWilkie, Christine – Children's Literature in Education, 1997
Offers a rereading of Frances Hodgson Burnett's "The Secret Garden," finding in it the triumph of Apollonian male rationalism over the Dionysian female cult of nature. Examines images of primitivism and wildness in the book, connecting them to polarities in conceptions of primitivism. (SR)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Secondary Education, Literary Criticism, Literary History
