Narratives of Love & Loss

Résumé du livre

Why do some stories written for children have so powerful and emotional resonance for both child and adult readers? This is the question addressed by Margaret and Michael Rustin, in a book which offers a detailed critical reading of some of the best-known British and American stories for children by writers such as E.B. White, Phillippa Pearce and C.S. Lewis. The authors make use of psychoanalytical and sociological ideas in their approach, interpreting the stories both as metaphors of states of feeling often experienced by children, and as images of wider society in which they are written.