The Psychology of the Critic and Gate-Keeper in Children's Literature

FAIN: RO-11959-73

University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA 94704-5940)
Ravenna M. Helson (Project Director: July 1973 to present)

To study the personality, background, and professional style of 50 contemparary editors, reviewers and critics of children's books over the past several decades; to compare the psychology of critics and authors; and to formulate the effects of "gate-keepers" in the interplay of literary production and social change.