من المقالات المهمة نفس أهمية مقالة Peter Hunt
في Part 1
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Twentieth-Century British Publishing
Nicholas Tucker
INTRODUCTION
- Questions about quality are central to Nicholas Tucker's discussion of the trends in British children's books and reading during the 20th C, which he traces in relation to sociopolitical change and growing competition from other media.
- Tucker use adult-like literary criteria as one reference point for evaluating children's books, criticizing those produced between the wars as undemanding, backward-looking, riddled with archaic, chauvinist class values and largely uninteresting to adults.
- He places a high value on realism and so praises post-1960s children's literature which he sees as depicting the diverse lives of ordinary children and constructing a realistically complex moral world.
- Tucker's preferences suggest the prioritization of an educational aim, in his assumption that literature should reflect real life and teach children about how the world really is.
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P.143+ P.144
o The
year 1945 was a crucial one in British history.
o War-time saw many social and political changes.
o Many
of British war-time
propaganda had concentrated on celebration shared values dating from the
past rather than looking to the future.
o In
this world of universal food and energy shortages, travel restrictions and common dangers, it was natural to look
backwards for contrasting and consoling images of a time before total warfare.
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· In children's literature,
comics and few novels did take up immediate war themes.
· Pre-war silence about such topics in
the world of children's books and general popular entertainment continued
as before.
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o In
1945 British children's
literature and publishing remained strongly parochial.
-
{Books
about, cooks-gardeners-maid}
- {Books
reflect the world of middle-class prejudice against selected foreigners, half
castes and gypsies}
- {Home-grown
villains as often as not continued to be portrayed as surly working-class
characters, generally with design to other people's property}
o This
was how children's books had always been, and there
was as yet little pressure
for change.
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· Children's
comics
continued to thrive, but again and again in a non-innovatory manner.
· Such anachronisms were
part of the traditional knock-about homour so popular in theses comics.
· But they also symbolised a
general unwillingness to portray the modern world.
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