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Fill In the Blanks: White Space in Children's Picture Books on Grief and Loss
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Author
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Holt, Samantha
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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English literature
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Description
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White space in picture books about grief and loss is space that becomes participatory by asking the reader or listener to make sense of what they are seeing while simultaneously joining it with their own real life experiences. This thesis examines...
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Friendship Through Fantasy: Amity in the Novels of Tamora Pierce
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Author
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Johnson, Charlotte
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Literature
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Description
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Friendship is a strangely absent topic in the criticism of children’s and young adult (YA) literature. While ancient philosophers have tried to define this unique relationship, a more contemporary analysis that can account for changes in culture a...
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Religious Questioning in Katherine Paterson’s and Judy Blume’s Fiction
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Author
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Rumfelt, Trina
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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English literature, Literature, Religion
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Description
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TRINA RUMFELT. Religious Questioning in Katherine Paterson’s and Judy Blume’s Fiction (Under Direction of DR. MARK I. WEST)Katherine Paterson and Judy Blume both began their careers as children’s authors in the late 1960s and achieved success in t...
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SOARING WITH DRAGONS: FINDING PLAY AND INTIMACY IN CHILDREN'S AND YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
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Author
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Williams, Joshua
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Literature, Philosophy, Philosophy and religion
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Description
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This thesis examines the way children’s and young adult literature deals with play and intimacy. Using Georges Bataille’s conception of intimacy, this thesis posits that intimacy, deriving from play, allows for a deeper understanding of self and a...