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What a Character! (Children's Books).
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Galda, Lee – Reading Teacher, 1989
Reviews children's literature with multi-dimensional, engaging characters--characters with strengths and weaknesses who grapple with real problems and find real solutions. (MG)
Descriptors: Characterization, Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Reader Text Relationship
On Character in the Novel: William Beatty Warner versus Samuel Richardson and the Humanists.
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Kraft, Quentin G. – College English, 1988
Discusses William Beatty Warner's "Reading Clarissa: The Struggles of Interpretation," a study of Samuel Richardson's role as eighteenth-century critic and interpreter of his own novels. Examines the treatment of character by both Richardson and Warner, focusing on Richardson's humanist interpretation and Warner's anti-humanist…
Descriptors: Characterization, Eighteenth Century Literature, English Literature, Literary Criticism