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Author : Diana Wynne Jones
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780007440184
“All I did was ask you for a role-playing game. You never warned me I’d be pitched into it for real! And I asked you for hobbits on a Grail quest, and not one hobbit have I seen!”
Author : Sanna Lehtonen
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476601939
This book explores representations of girlhood and young womanhood in recent English language children's fantasy by focusing on two fantastic body transformation types: invisibility and age-shifting. Drawing on recent feminist and queer theory, the study discusses the tropes of invisibility and age-shifting as narrative devices representing gendered experiences. The transformations offer various perspectives on a girl's changing body and identity and provide links between real-life and fantastic discourses of gender, power, invisibility and aging. The main focus is on English-language fantasy published since the 1970s but the motifs of invisibility and age-shifting in earlier tales and children's books is reviewed; this is the first study of children's fantasy literature that considers these tropes at length. Novels discussed are from both critically acclaimed authors and the less well known. Most of the novels depicting invisible or age-shifting girls are neither thoroughly conventional nor radically subversive but present a range of styles. In terms of gender, children's fantasy novels can be more complex than they are often interpreted to be.
Author : Michael Cadden
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780803234093
The most accessible approach yet to children's literature and narrative theory,Telling Children's Storiesis a comprehensive collection of never-before-published essays by an international slate of scholars that offers a broad yet in-depth assessment of narrative strategies unique to children's literature. The volume is divided into four interrelated sections: "Genre Templates and Transformations," "Approaches to the Picture Book," "Narrators and Implied Readers," and "Narrative Time." Mike Cadden's introduction considers the links between the various essays and topics, as well as their connections with such issues as metafiction, narrative ethics, focalization, and plotting. Ranging in focus from picture books to novels such asTo Kill a Mockingbird, from detective fiction for children to historical tales, from new works such as the Lemony Snicket series to classics likeTom's Midnight Garden, these essays explore notions of montage and metaphor, perspective and subjectivity, identification and time. Together, they comprise a resource that will interest and instruct scholars of narrative theory and children's literature, and that will become critically important to the understanding and development of both fields.
Author : Farah Mendlesohn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135461355
British author Diana Wynne Jones has been writing speculative fiction for children for more than thirty years. A clear influence on more recent writers such as J. K. Rowling, her humorous and exciting stories of wizard's academies, dragons, and griffins-many published for children but read by all ages-are also complexly structured and thought provoking critiques of the fantasy tradition. This is the first serious study of Jones's work, written by a renowned science fiction critic and historian. In addition to providing an overview of Jones's work, Farah Mendlesohn also examines Jones's important critiques of the fantastic tradition's ideas about childhood and adolescence. This book will be of interest to Jones's many admirers and to those who study fantasy and children's literature.
Author : Lori M. Campbell
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476617633
This collection of new essays seeks to define the unique qualities of female heroism in literary fantasy from Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings in the 1950s through the present. Building upon traditional definitions of the hero in myth and folklore as the root genres of modern fantasy, the essays provide a multi-faceted view of an important fantasy character type who begins to demonstrate a significant presence only in the latter 20th century. The essays contribute to the empowerment and development of the female hero as an archetype in her own right.
Author : Caroline Webb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317935742
This study examines the children’s books of three extraordinary British writers—J.K. Rowling, Diana Wynne Jones, and Terry Pratchett—and investigates their sophisticated use of narrative strategies not only to engage children in reading, but to educate them into becoming mature readers and indeed individuals. The book demonstrates how in quite different ways these writers establish reader expectations by drawing on conventions in existing genres only to subvert those expectations. Their strategies lead young readers to evaluate for themselves both the power of story to shape our understanding of the world and to develop a sense of identity and agency. Rowling, Jones, and Pratchett provide their readers with fantasies that are pleasurable and imaginative, but far from encouraging escape from reality, they convey important lessons about the complexities and challenges of the real world—and how these may be faced and solved. All three writers deploy the tropes and imaginative possibilities of fantasy to disturb, challenge, and enlarge the world of their readers.
Author : Roy S. Marlow
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004-07-22
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 081173207X
Timeless Bowhuntingwill help you: Choose a bow based on the merits of technical design Find a hunting arrow that gives optimum accuracy, trajectory, and penetration Shoot accurately uphill, downhill, from tree stands, and in the wind Choose an effective shooting style for your type of hunting Perfect your shooting form by eliminating common shooting flaws Find the best aiming method for you
Author : Lewis Carroll
Publisher : London ; New York : Macmillan
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015057979646
First published in 1889, this novel has two main plots; one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in the fictional world of Fairyland.
Author : Jan Weeks
Publisher : Nelson Thornes
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0170091902
Author : Alan Hayes
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780244529161
Created by Richard Carpenter, Catweazle burst onto TV screens in 1970, capturing the hearts of children and adults alike. It starred Geoffrey Bayldon as the eponymous Saxon wizard, who was twice catapulted through time to a 1970s England full of technology that left him bewildered. His companions and mentors in "the new magic" were children, Carrot (Robin Davies) and Cedric (Gary Warren), both of whom he befriended. Tis Magic! Our Memories of Catweazle celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the series with forty brilliant essays in which writers explore how Catweazle has touched their lives. Extensively illustrated, it boasts a foreword by Harriet Whitehouse, daughter of Catweazle's creator, and an afterword by Venetia Davies, wife of Robin Davies. Today, Catweazle is regarded as one of the very best British children's television series. It remains well-loved and boasts a close-knit fan community brought together by the Official Catweazle Fan Club, which benefits from sales of this book.
Author : Kimberley Reynolds
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191620126
Children's literature takes many forms - works adapted for children in antiquity, picture books and pop-ups - and now includes the latest online games and eBooks. This vast and amorphous subject is both intimately related to other areas of literary and cultural investigation but also has its own set of concerns, issues and challenges. From familiar authors including Beatrix Potter and Roald Dahl, classic books such as Pooh, Alice in Wonderland, and The Secret Garden, to modern works including Harry Potter and the Twilight series, thisVery Short Introduction provides an overview of the history of children's literature as it has developed in English, whilst at the same time introducing key debates, developments, and figures in the field. Raising questions about what shape the future of literature for children should take, and exploring the crossover with adult fiction, Reynolds shows that writing for children - whether on page or screen - has participated in shaping and directing ideas about culture, society and childhood. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author : Bonnie Kunzel,Suzanne Manczuk
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : 0810840286
This beginning reader's advisory book helps librarians guide young readers to science fiction and fantasy titles. Entries describe titles and list sequels and related books by the same author. Entries are in topical sections such as alien contact, dragons, biotechnology, and postapocalypse. Classics as well as current titles popular with both younger and older teens are included in each category. Kunzel is a teen specialist at Princeton Public Library and is vice president of the Young Adult Library Services Association of the American Library Association. Manczuk teaches in the School of Communication, Information, and Library Studies at Rutgers University. c. Book News Inc.
Author : Diana Wynne Jones
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780007507559
A fantasy adventure about saving the universe one world at a time from Diana Wynne Jones. The companion novel to the bestselling The Merlin Conspiracy.
Author : Diana Wynne Jones
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780062200808
If he finds the right world, Jamie can get Home again. When Jamie stumbled upon the powerful Them playing Their mysterious games, They threw him out to the Boundaries of the worlds. Since then, he's been yanked from world to world, doomed to wonder in hope of one day finding his way back to his own city. Bit by bit, though, Jamie realizes there are rules They have to play by. He forms an alliance with two other lost Homeward Bounders—bitter, powerful Helen and demon-hunter Joris—and takes a desperate chance, hoping that the three wanders can find a way back to their home worlds at last. Once he becomes a pawn in a game played by a powerful group he calls Them, 12-year-old Jamie is repeatedly catapulted through space and time.
Author : Richard Carpenter
Publisher : Hachette Children's
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781444921786
Catweazle is a magician from the eleventh century who had trouble making his spells work. One day, all that changed, thanks to a bad dream and the hooting of an owl, and some ferocious Norman soldiers. The magic Catweazle used that day was unlike any other: it worked. The only trouble was it sped him through the centuries into 1970s Britain. There, by good fortune, he befriended a farmer's son, Carrot, and began the process of adjusting - or not - to modern life. How Catweazle manages to deal with cars and telephones and electricity (or 'electrickery', as he calls it) made for hilarious viewing on the LWT TV series and wickedly funny reading in the Puffin novelisation. And here it is again, for older readers to rediscover and as a timeless treat for children today.
