... Personal and social problems often became the theme of the new books. This new realism in literature for children and adolescents has explored topics formerly reserved for adult audiences. Such themes as one-parent households, divorce, estranged parents, living on welfare, death and dying, homosexuality, drugs, and changing sexual roles are representatives of the candor displayed in contemporary literature ... audience illustrate the moral dilemma confronting the producers of mass media content, even those who do so with purity of purpose (Day 366). On the one hand, the new themes are o...

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... disregards the rest. - Simon & Garfunkel, The Boxer, 1970 Pudd'nhead Wilson & Those Extraordinary Sins Interpreting Mark Twain's work within our distinctly American cultural heritage has absorbed the careers of countless literary scholars. How a complete neophyte can address such issues with any hope of coherence seems beyond the realm of possibility. But, as Twain came to understand, it may be best to ... the threat to the dominant structure in all of its manifestations and through all of society's various human class and race strata. Oftentimes the best way to approach seemingly unmen...

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