Diana Wynne Jones : An Exciting and Exacting Wisdom

by Rosenberg, Teya; Hixon, Martha P.; Scapple, Sharon M.; White, Donna R.

• ISBN13: 9780820456874
• ISBN10: 082045687X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-06-01
• Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc

Summary

Diana Wynne Jones: An Exciting and Exacting Wisdom is a collection of scholarly essays examining the work of British author Diana Wynne Jones, whose prolific contributions to speculative fiction span the past thirty years. A contemporary of such

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(12)
Teya Rosenberg
Nowhere To Go, No One To Be: Diana Wynne Jones and the Concepts of Englishness and Self-Image	13	(12)
Karen Sands-O'Connor
Heterotopia as a Reflection of Postmodern Consciousness in the Works of Diana Wynne Jones	25	(15)
Maria Nikolajeva
Dragons and Quantum Foam: Mythic Archetypes and Modern Physics in Selected Works by Diana Wynne Jones	40	(13)
Karina Hill
Diana Wynne Jones and the World-Shaping Power of Language	53	(13)
Deborah Kaplan
Now Here: Where Now? Magic as Metaphor and as Reality in the Writing of Diana Wynne Jones	66	(13)
Charles Butler
Good and Evil in the Works of Diana Wynne Jones and J. K. Rowling	79	(17)
Sarah Fiona Winters
The Importance of Being Nowhere: Narrative Dimensions and Their Interplay in Fire and Hemlock	96	(12)
Martha P. Hixon
Fire and Hemlock: A Text as a Spellcoat	108	(9)
Akiko Yamazaki
Transformation of Myth in A Tale of Time City	117	(8)
Sharon M. Scapple
Living in Limbo: The Homeward Bounders as a Metaphor for Military Childhood	125	(13)
Donna R. White
The Trials and Tribulations of Two Dogsbodies: A Jungian Reading of Diana Wynne Jones's Dogsbody	138	(11)
Alice Mills
Cats and Aliens in the Unreal City: T. S. Eliot, Diana Wynne Jones, and the Urban Experience	149	(14)
Marilynn S. Olson
Interview with Diana Wynne Jones Conducted	163	(10)
Charles Butler
List of Contributors	173	(4)
Index	177