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Langford, Sondra Gordon – Horn Book Magazine, 1987
Discusses a young adult novel with an unusual theme: a neglected boy roams the New York City subways by day and makes his home in a cave. (NKA)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Alienation, Individual Development, Literary Styles
Moffitt, Mary Anne – 1987
A Jungian psychoanalytic approach, using the unconscious animus/anima archetype, can explain the appeal of the romance novel to women readers through an understanding of how the romance formula fulfills the psychological needs of contemporary women as the struggle for identity in a patriarchal society. The heroine of the romance is attracted to…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Characterization, Females, Feminism
