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| is traditionally described as the body of writing that exists because of its inherent imaginative and artistic qualities. |
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| What do we seek from literature? |
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1. Pleasure
2. Understanding, which comes from the exploration of the human condition and the revelation of human nature. |
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| primarily provides us with information, with facts that are true about history or art, but in which the writers have shaped and deepened the information to provide us with new insights into the world. |
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| What does literature show us? |
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1. Human motive, and must resonates for a reader at different stages in life.
2. Provides form of experience and order.
3. Reveals life's fragmentation.
4. Helps focus on essentials.
5. Provides a sense of life's unity and meaning.
6. Explore and suggest attitudes toward the institutions of society.
7. Reveals nature as a force with profound influence.
8. Provides vicarious experiences. |
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1. Government
2. Family
3. Church
4. School |
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| Children's literature is written for what two audiences? |
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| The adult who often buys and approves of the literature and the child who reads it. |
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| What is part of the "doubleness" of children's lit? |
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| Children is not written by the kind of person who reads it, meaning that it is written for the pleasure of a child as that pleasure is imagined by an adult. |
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| What does children's literature provide? |
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| Provides visual worlds to enter into. |
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| What are the two different kinds of literature that have been labeled as "young adult"? |
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1. Was originally written for adults, but because an adolescent was a main character, or because the book captured something true about adolescence - i.e. To Kill A Mockingbird and Catcher in the Rye
2. Has been written by adults for adolescents as they imagine them to be. |
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