Four British Fantasists Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• File Size : 22,9 Mb
• Release Date : 03 June 2024

Explores the work of four of the successful of the generation of fantasy writers who rose to prominence in the second Golden Age of children's literature in Britain.

• Publisher : Scarecrow Press
• File Size : 43,7 Mb
• Release Date : 03 June 2024

Children's Literature and British Identity: Imagining a People and a Nation is the story of the development of English children's literature, focusing on how stories inspire children to adhere to

• Publisher : Springer
• File Size : 44,8 Mb
• Release Date : 21 August 2017

This book explores how working-class writers in the 1960s and 1970s significantly reshaped British children’s literature through their representations of working-class life and culture. Aidan Chambers, Alan Garner and

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 22,9 Mb
• Release Date : 06 August 2012

This book provides a new critical methodology for the study of landscapes in children's literature. Treating landscape as the integration of unchanging and irreducible physical elements, or topoi, Carroll identifies

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• File Size : 36,6 Mb
• Release Date : 30 June 2008

What is the secret of the Grail?' So intoned a heavenly voice to Sir Percival in John Boorman's stylish and influential film 'Excalibur' (1981). The sacred allure of the Holy

• Publisher : Springer
• File Size : 54,7 Mb
• Release Date : 06 March 2017

Runner-up of the Katherine Briggs Folklore Award 2017 Winner of the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth & Fantasy Studies 2019 This book examines the creative uses of “Celtic” myth in contemporary fantasy written

• Publisher : BRILL
• File Size : 32,5 Mb
• Release Date : 27 March 2017

Ulrike Pesold examines the portrayal of class, gender, race and ethnicity in selected school stories by Thomas Hughes, Rudyard Kipling, Enid Blyton and J.K. Rowling. She shows how the

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 36,5 Mb
• Release Date : 15 September 2014

This study examines the children’s books of three extraordinary British writers—J.K. Rowling, Diana Wynne Jones, and Terry Pratchett—and investigates their sophisticated use of narrative strategies not

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• File Size : 48,6 Mb
• Release Date : 21 September 2023

Whether watching Studio Ghibli adaptations of British children's books, visiting Harry Potter sites in Britain or eating at Alice in Wonderland-themed restaurants in Tokyo, the Japanese have a close and

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 43,9 Mb
• Release Date : 03 March 2016

Lucy Pearson’s lively and engaging book examines British children’s literature during the period widely regarded as a ’second golden age’. Drawing extensively on archival material, Pearson investigates the