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1 online resource (224 pages) |
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Introduction: David Almond and Mystical Realism / Rosemary Ross Johnston -- 1. Living Just Beyond the Wall: Versions of the Savage in David Almond's Novels / Perry Nodelman -- 2. Ontology, Epistemology, and Values: Philosophy and Cognitive Science in David Almond's Skellig and My Name is Mina / Roberta Seelinger Trites -- 3. The Possibilities of Becoming: Process-Relational Theology in the Works of David Almond / Karen Coats -- 4. 'A Sense Sublime': Religious Resonances in the Work of David Almond / Valerie Coghlan -- 5. Birdmen from the Depths of the Earth: Radical Landscape in the Fiction of David Almond / Nolan Dalrymple -- 6. 'They thought we had disappeared, and they were wrong': The Depiction of Working Class in Almond's Novels / Carole Dunbar -- 7. 'Melting and Opening Underfoot': Almond's Heaven Eyes as a Complex Variation / Perry Nodelman -- 8. The Transcendent in David Almond's Play Wild Girl, Wild Boy / Michael Levy -- 9. Of Writing: The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean: telt by hisself / Rosemary Ross Johnston -- Appendix: The David Almond Archive at Seven Stories, National Centre for Children's Books / Hannah Izod. |
| Local Note |
EBSCOhost Biography Reference Center |
| Subject |
Almond, David, 1951- -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Almond, David, 1951- (OCoLC)fst00194608
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Young adult literature, English -- History and criticism.
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Essays.
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Children's Literature.
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
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Literature & literary studies.
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Young adult literature, English. (OCoLC)fst01183153
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Added Author |
Ross Johnston, Rosemary, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781137301185 (EPUB) |
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113730118X (EPUB) |
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