Mendlesohn Diana Wynne Jones

The Fantastic Tradition and Children's Literature
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-135-46128-7
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

Reihe: Children's Literature and Culture

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mendlesohn, Farah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editor's Foreward
Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Critical Fictions of Diana Wynne Jones
Chapter One. Wilkins' Tooth
Chapter Two: Agency and Jones's Understanding of Adolescence
Chapter Three: Time Games.
Chapter Four: Diana Wynne Jones and the Portal-quest Fantasy
Chapter Five: The Immersive Fantasy
Chapter Six: Making the Mundane Fantastic: Liminality, Estrangement, Irony and Equipoise
Chapter Seven: A Mad Kind of Reasonableness
Epilogue

Notes
Bibliographies

Über Autor(innen)

Farah Mendlesohn is a noted science fiction critic and historian. She is Editor of the journal Foundation: the International Review of Science Fiction and has twice served as a judge for the esteemed Arthur C. Clarke award for best work in sf. She co-edited, with Professor Edward James, The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction.