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Author
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
"Behind the innocent face of Victorian fairy tales such as Through the Looking Glass or Mopsa the Fairy lurks the spectre of an intense nineteenth-century debate about the very nature - and ownership - of childhood. In the engagingly written Ventures into Childland, U.C. Knoepflmacher illuminates this debate. Offering brilliant rereadings of classics from the "Golden Age of Children's Literature" as well as literature commonly considered "grown-up,"...
2) Graphic storytelling and visual narrative: principles and practices from the legendary cartoonist
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Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A graphic adaptation of one of the most famous and contested books of all time. Few books have been as controversial or as historically significant as Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Since the moment it was released on November 24, 1859, Darwin's masterwork has been heralded for changing the course of science and condemned for its implied challenges...