From Mythic to Linear Time in Children's Literature

Nikolajeva (comparative literature, Stockholm U., Sweden), treating all children's literature as an essentially symbolic depiction of a maturation process (rather than dividing children's literature into genres of fantasy versus reality), surveys a wide range of works from different times and across the globe. From a Jungian perspective, she categorizes the works to the degree that they confront the coming of age process. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR