Diana Wynne Jones : children's literature and the fantastic tradition /
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Author / Creator: | Mendlesohn, Farah. |
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Imprint: | New York : Routledge, 2005. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xxxiii, 240 pages) : illustrations |
Language: | English |
Series: | Children's literature and culture ; volume 36 Children's literature and culture ; 36. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11303781 |
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. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxxiii, 240 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-233) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781135461287 1135461287 129986869X 9781299868694 9780203957943 0203957946 0415970237 9780415970235 0415872898 9780415872898 |