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Translation. / O'Sullivan, Emer.
The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature and Culture . ed. / Claudia Nelson; Elisabeth Wesseling; Andrea Mei-Ying Wu. New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2023. p. 327-339 27 (Routledge literature companions).

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Harvard

O'Sullivan, E 2023, Translation. in C Nelson, E Wesseling & AM-Y Wu (eds), The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature and Culture ., 27, Routledge literature companions, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, New York, pp. 327-339. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003214953-32

APA

O'Sullivan, E. (2023). Translation. In C. Nelson, E. Wesseling, & A. M.-Y. Wu (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature and Culture (pp. 327-339). Article 27 (Routledge literature companions). Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003214953-32

Vancouver

O'Sullivan E. Translation. In Nelson C, Wesseling E, Wu AMY, editors, The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature and Culture . New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. 2023. p. 327-339. 27. (Routledge literature companions). doi: 10.4324/9781003214953-32

Bibtex

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