How Conventional Ideas about the Child Survive in Literature for Children. Conscious and Unconscious Uses of the Adult Voice

Essay from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, , language: English, abstract: In this paper, the 'Hidden Adult' will be considered as a theoretical framework that helps explain how different textual layers in children’s literature come into being and how adults’ views about children are conveyed by its adult authors. Nodelman, author of th...