Most Of The Great Works Of Juvenile Literature Are Subversive In One Way Or Another: They Express Ideas And Emotions Not Generally Approved Of Or Even Recognized At The Time; They Make Fun Of Honored Figures And Piously Held Beliefs; And They View Social Pretenses With Clear-eyed Directness, Remarking - As In Andersen's Famous Tale - That The Emperor Has No Clothes.

-Alison Lurie

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Most Of The Great Works Of Juvenile

Alison Lurie

Most Of The Great Works Of Juvenile Literature Are Subversive In One Way Or Another: They Express Ideas And Emotions Not Generally Approved Of Or Even Recognized At The Time; They Make Fun Of Honored Figures And Piously Held Beliefs; And They View Social Pretenses With Clear-eyed Directness, Remarking - As In Andersen's Famous Tale - That The Emperor Has No Clothes.

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Grosvenor And Burke Suggest That Continually, Though Silently, A School Building Tells Students Who They Are And How They Should Think About The World. It Can Help To Manufacture Rote Obedience Or Independent Activity; It Can Create High Self-confidence Or Low Self-esteem.

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