Marvellous Codes The Fiction of Margaret Mahy

by Hale, Elizabeth; Winters, Sarah Fiona

• ISBN13: 9780864735164
• ISBN10: 0864735162
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-28
• Publisher: Victoria University Press

Summary

Margaret Mahy's extraordinary young-adult novels are examined by leading scholars in this collection of critical essays. Considering the ways that fantasy provides both adventure and security for adolescents, the discussion centers on the role of witches, pirates, ghosts, and tricksters in Mahy's tales.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Marvellous Codes	7	(14)
Elizabeth Hale
Adolescence
'Solid All the Way Through': Margaret Mahy's Ordinary Witches	21	(23)
Alison Waller
Contagious Knowledge: Margaret Mahy and the Adolescent Novel	44	(18)
Anna Smith
Ariadne 'Down Under': Margaret Mahy's The Tricksters	62	(22)
Claudia Marquis
Marginality
Pirate Parenting in Margaret Mahy's Middle-Grade Readers	84	(26)
Lorinda B. Cohoon
Setting Free: Margaret Mahy and Disability	110	(20)
Kathy Saunders
Storytelling
'Telling Stories of Desire': The Power of Authorship in The Changeover and The Amber Spyglass	130	(18)
Lisa Scally
'True-seeming lyes' in Margaret Mahy's Fiction	148	(20)
Kathryn Walls
The Wobble in the Symmetry: The Narrator's Role in The Catalogue of the Universe	168	(19)
Sam Hester
New Zealand
'A Fertility and Felicity and Ferocity of Invention': New Zealand Landscapes in Margaret Mahy's Young Adult Novels	187	(23)
Diane Hebley
Gardening in Eden: Margaret Mahy's Postcolonial Ghosts and the New Zealand Landscape	210	(24)
Ruth P. Feingold
Rewriting Mahy's The Tricksters: Exploring Sense of Place and Fictional Space through Adaptation and Imitation	234	(21)
Mary E. Hine (with Rob Pope and Alison Waller)
Afterword	255	(2)
Sarah Fiona Winters
Contributors	257	(2)
Acknowledgements	259	(1)
Index	260