Farah Mendlesohn

Diana Wynne Jones

The Fantastic Tradition and Children's Literature

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9780415872898
• ISBN-10: 0415872898
• Artikelnr.: 26680382

Autorenporträt

Farah Mendlesohn is a noted science fiction critic and historian. She is Editor of the journal Foundation: theInternational 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.

Inhaltsangabe

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