Treasure Islands Studies in Children's Literature

by Thompson, Mary Shine; Keenan, Celia

• ISBN13: 9781851829415
• ISBN10: 1851829415
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-01-01
• Publisher: Four Courts Press

Summary

The stories of Eilís Dillon receive particular attention on the 10th anniversary of her death. -- Kate Hebblethwaite Maroons-Darwin and the question of humanity -- Siobhan Parkinson-From Utopia to Weslandia, via Terabithia -- Anna Bogen Peter Pan-Wildcat Island, and the lure of the real -- Carmen Pérez Diez-C.S. Lewis' The voyage of the dawn treader -- David Rudd-Islands and I-lands in Enid Blyton -- Jane O'Hanlon-Enid Blyton's relevance -- Clive Barnes-Changes in island adventure in the mid-20th century -- Robert Dunbar-Textual ownership in recent young adult fiction -- Maureen A. Farrell-Scottish children's literature -- Elizabeth Parsons-The sea in Gary Crew's picture books -- Celia Keenan-Tradition and modernity in Into the west and Whale rider -- Michael Flanagan-Catholic/nationalist ideology in Irish popular culture -- Marnie Hay-Irish nationalist propaganda aimed at children, 191016 -- Máire Uí Mhaicín-The Celtic otherworld in retellings of Old Irish tales -- Patricia Kennon-Siobhan Parkinson's Four kids, three cats, two cows, one witch (maybe) -- A.J. Piesse-Islands, Ireland, and writing for children -- Breege O'Brien-Islands in modern children's literature in Ireland -- Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin-The wild and the tame in children's literature -- Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin-Growing up in a writer's head -- Nancy Watson-Eilís Dillon's children's fiction

Table of Contents

Preface	9	(2)
Celia Keenan
Introduction	11	(13)
Mary Shine Thompson
Creating wildmen in one's own image: maroons, Darwin and the question of humanity	24	(9)
Kate Hebblethwaite
This treasured island: Irish nationalist propaganda aimed at children and youth, 1910--16	33	(10)
Marnie Hay
`There is an isle in the western ocean': the Christian Brothers, Our Boys and Catholic/nationalist ideology	43	(10)
Michael Flanagan
`The island come true': Peter Pan, Wild Cat Island, and the lure of the real	53	(9)
Anna Bogen
New kinds of treasure: changes in island adventure in Britain and the USA in the mid-twentieth century	62	(10)
Clive Barnes
Islands and I-lands in Enid Blyton	72	(7)
David Rudd
The contemporary relevance of Enid Blyton (1897--1968)	79	(12)
Jane O'Hanlon
`This island's mine . . . which thou tak'st from me': textual `ownership' in some recent young adult fiction	91	(7)
Robert Dunbar
Australia, island's edge: the sea in Gary Crew's picture books	98	(10)
Elizabeth Parsons
Gods, heroes, saints and villains of the Celtic other-world in modern retellings of old Irish tales	108	(10)
Maire Ui Mhaicin
Treasured islands: the literary uses of the island setting in some Scottish children's novels	118	(8)
Maureen A. Farrell
Contrasting cinematic versions of the conflict between tradition and modernity in Into the West and Whale Rider	126	(10)
Celia Keenan
Bridging gaps, waters abating: C.S. Lewis' The Voyage of the Dawn Treader	136	(7)
Maria del Carmen Perez-Diez
(W)Rites of passage in Siobhan Parkinson's novel Four Kids, Three Cats, Two Cows and One Witch (Maybe)	143	(10)
Patricia Kennon
Islands, Ireland and the changing state of writing for children	153	(9)
A.J. Piesse
From Utopia to Terabithia: `island' literature as Edenic fantasy	162	(10)
Siobhan Parkinson
Traditional loyalties and liberal values in Eilis Dillon's The Island of Ghosts	172	(6)
Nancy Watson
Imagining an island place: the island as setting in children's literature in Ireland	178	(9)
Breege O'Brien
Daddies and telephones: the wild and the tame in children's literature	187	(13)
Eilean Ni Chuilleanain
Growing up in a writer's head	200	(9)
Cormac O Cuilleanain
Contributors	209	(4)
Index	213