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Miller, Evelyn E. – Engl J, 1970
Discussion of Ernest Hemingway's "Old Man at the Bridge, Robert Sherwood's "Idiot's Delight, and Stephen Crane's "War Is Kind . (RD)
Descriptors: Aggression, Irony, Literary Criticism, Literary Devices
Blackburn, William – 1983
Adults must be willing to accept attitudes of criticism and rebellion as serious and valuable components of children's literature, but they should also expect a good children's book to make some sort of moral evaluation of those attitudes. For example, while one may respect the candor with which "Hansel and Gretel" depicts the struggle of children…
Descriptors: Aggression, Characterization, Child Development, Child Psychology
Tobin, Joseph – 2000
This book details an ethnographic study focused on how children think and talk about media representations of violence, gender, race, colonialism, and social class. Participating in the study were 162 elementary school students in Hawaii. Groups of 6- to 12-year-olds viewed clips from 2 television commercials and 2 movies and were later…
Descriptors: Aggression, Childhood Attitudes, Children, Colonialism
