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9780415970235

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

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415970235

  • ISBN10:

    0415970237

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-08-26
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

British author 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 wizard's 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 is the first serious study of Jones's work, written by a renowned science fiction critic and historian. In addition to providing an overview of Jones's work, Farah Mendlesohn also examines Jones's important critiques of the fantastic tradition's ideas about childhood and adolescence. This book will be of interest to Jones's many admirers and to those who study fantasy and children's literature.

Author Biography

Farah Mendlesohn is a noted science fiction critic and historian

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Foreword ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: The Critical Fictions of Diana Wynne Jones xiii
Wilkins' Tooth
1(18)
Agency and Jones's Understanding of Adolescence
19(34)
Time Games
53(26)
Diana Wynne Jones and the Portal-Quest Fantasy
79(22)
The Immersive Fantasy
101(34)
Making the Mundane Fantastic, or Liminal Fantasy
135(32)
A Mad Kind of Reasonableness
167(26)
Epilogue 193(4)
Notes 197(28)
Bibliographies 225(10)
Index 235

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