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  2. Childhood in literature - Wikipedia

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    Childhood in literature is a theme within writing concerned with depictions of adolescence. Childhood writing is often told from either the perspective of the child or that of an adult reflecting on their childhood. [1] Novels either based on or depicting childhood present social commentaries rooted in the views and experiences of an individual.

  3. Literary topos - Wikipedia

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    Ernst Robert Curtius studied topoi as "commonplaces", themes common to orators and writers who re-worked them according to occasion, e.g., in classical antiquity the observation that "all must die" was a topos in consolatory oratory, for in facing death the knowledge that death comes even to great men brings comfort. [2]

  4. Narrative identity - Wikipedia

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    Narrative identity has been explored in the stories of incarcerated individuals. For example, narratives have been used to understand the conversion experience among prisoners. [55] Through these narratives, prisoner converts have been able to integrate their negative self (the one who committed the crime) into their larger sense of self.

  5. Theme (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    In contemporary literary studies, a theme is a central topic, subject, or message within a narrative. [1] Themes can be divided into two categories: a work's thematic concept is what readers "think the work is about" and its thematic statement being "what the work says about the subject". [2] Themes are often distinguished from premises.

  6. Themes in Maya Angelou's autobiographies - Wikipedia

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    Angelou's theme of identity was established from the beginning of her autobiographies, with the opening lines in Caged Bird, and like other female writers in the late 1960s and early 1970s, she used the autobiography to reimagine ways of writing about women's lives and identities in a male-dominated society. Her original goal was to write about ...

  7. Children's Fantasy Literature: An Introduction - Wikipedia

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    A children's literature journal termed it a "foundational text", stating that it was the first in-depth study of children's fantasy. [1] The Times Literary Supplement called it "magisterial" but criticized the presentation of the large number of works discussed, [ 2 ] while another critic found it stimulating.

  8. Little & Lion - Wikipedia

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    Little & Lion is a Junior Library Guild book. [11]BuzzFeed, Kirkus Reviews, [3] and Tablet named it one of the best young adult novels of 2017. [11] Booklist also included it on their 2017 Editors' Choice: Books for Youth list.

  9. Self-discovery - Wikipedia

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    A journey of self-discovery is a popular theme in fiction. [3] [7] Some films use similar phrases, such as in the film Petals: Journey Into Self Discovery (2008).[8] [better source needed] The drama films Eat Pray Love (2010) and Life of Pi (2012) are also associated with the idea of a journey of self-discovery.