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One Child Reading: My Auto-bibliography

Product Description: "The miracle of the preserved word, in whatever medium-print, audio text, video recording, digital exchange-means that it may transfer into new times and new places." - From the Introduction In a significant and unique contribution to our understanding of reading and literacy development, Margaret Mackey draws together memory, textual criticism, social analysis, and reading theory in an extraordinary act of self-study...read more

By Roberta Seelinger Trites (foreword by)

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9781772120394 | Univ of Alberta Pr, April 25, 2016, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: "The miracle of the preserved word, in whatever medium-print, audio text, video recording, digital exchange-means that it may transfer into new times and new places.

A Narrative Compass: Stories That Guide Women's Lives

Product Description: Each of us has a narrative compass, a story that has guided our lifework. In this extraordinary collection, women scholars from a variety of disciplines identify and examine the stories that have inspired them, haunted them, and shaped their research, from Little House on the Prairie to Little Women, from the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Nancy Drew, Mary Jane, and even the Chinese memoir Jottings from the Transcendant's Abode at Mt...read more

By Roberta Seelinger Trites (editor)

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9780252034077 | 1 edition (Univ of Illinois Pr, April 3, 2009), cover price $67.00 | About this edition: Each of us has a narrative compass, a story that has guided our lifework.

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9780252076114 | 1 edition (Univ of Illinois Pr, March 13, 2009), cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Each of us has a narrative compass, a story that has guided our lifework.

Twain, Alcott, and the Birth of the Adolescent Reform Novel

Product Description: Trites argues that Twain and Alcott wrote on similar topics because they were so deeply affected by the Civil War, by cataclysmic emotional and financial losses in their families, by their cultural immersion in the tenets of Protestant philosophy, and by sexual tensions that may have stimulated their interest in writing for adolescents, Trites demonstrates how the authors participated in a cultural dynamic that marked the changing nature of adolescence in America, provoking a literary sentiment that continues to inform young adult literature...read more

By Roberta Seelinger Trites

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9781587296222 | Univ of Iowa Pr, November 1, 2007, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Trites argues that Twain and Alcott wrote on similar topics because they were so deeply affected by the Civil War, by cataclysmic emotional and financial losses in their families, by their cultural immersion in the tenets of Protestant philosophy, and by sexual tensions that may have stimulated their interest in writing for adolescents, Trites demonstrates how the authors participated in a cultural dynamic that marked the changing nature of adolescence in America, provoking a literary sentiment that continues to inform young adult literature.

Disturbing the Universe: Power and Repression in Adolescent Literature

Chronicles the dynamics of power and repression found in young adult novels, and describes how characters in young adult novels negiotiate power hierachies existing in the family, church, government, and school.

By Roberta Seelinger Trites

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9780877457329 | Univ of Iowa Pr, October 1, 2000, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the dynamics of power and repression found in young adult novels, and describes how characters in young adult novels negiotiate power hierachies existing in the family, church, government, and school.

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9780877458579 | Univ of Iowa Pr, January 7, 2004, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Chronicles the dynamics of power and repression found in young adult novels, and describes how characters in young adult novels negiotiate power hierachies existing in the family, church, government, and school.

Waking Sleeping Beauty: Feminist Voices in Children's Novels

An examination of feminist themes in children's and young adult's literature covers such topics as friendship, marriage, and community

By Roberta Seelinger Trites

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9780877455905 | Univ of Iowa Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: An examination of feminist themes in children's and young adult's literature covers such topics as friendship, marriage, and community

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9780877455912 | Univ of Iowa Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: An examination of feminist themes in children's and young adult's literature covers such topics as friendship, marriage, and community

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