Diana Wynne Jones: The Fantastic Tradition and Children's Literature - Brossura

Mendlesohn, Farah

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ISBN 10: 0415872898 ISBN 13: 9780415872898

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2009

Riassunto

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

Su questo libro

L'autore:

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.

Contenuti:

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

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0415872898
• ISBN 13: 9780415872898
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 276