| Description |
1 online resource (xxxiii, 240 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series |
Children's literature and culture ; volume 36 |
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Children's literature and culture ; 36.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-233) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: The Critical Fictions of Diana Wynne Jones -- Wilkins' Tooth -- Agency and Jones's Understanding of Adolescence -- Time Games -- Diana Wynne Jones and the Portal-Quest Fantasy -- The Immersive Fantasy -- Making the Mundane Fantastic, or Liminal Fantasy -- A Mad Kind of Reasonableness. |
| Summary |
"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 wizards' 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 book is the first sustained study of Jones's work. Here, renowned science fiction critic and historian Farah Mendlesohn provides a comprehensive overview of Jones's oeuvre and examines her important critiques of the fantastic tradition's ideas about childhood and adolescence. |
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This is essential reading for Jones's many admirers and a long overdue critical companion for students and scholars of children's literature."--Jacket. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Local Note |
EBSCOhost Biography Reference Center |
| Subject |
Jones, Diana Wynne -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Jones, Diana Wynne. (OCoLC)fst00116883
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Children's stories, English -- History and criticism.
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Fantasy fiction, English -- History and criticism.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Children's stories, English. (OCoLC)fst00856704
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Fantasy fiction, English. (OCoLC)fst00920756
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mendlesohn, Farah. Diana Wynne Jones 0415970237 (DLC) 2005003668 (OCoLC)57669501 |
| ISBN |
9781135461287 (electronic book) |
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1135461287 (electronic book) |
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129986869X (e-book) |
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9781299868694 (e-book) |
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9780203957943 (e-book) |
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0203957946 (e-book) |
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0415872898 (paperback) |
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9780415872898 (paperback) |
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0415970237 |
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9780415970235 |
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