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A scholarly publication devoted to critical essays on childre.'s literature, published three times a year. Articles include evaluations, history, and comparative discussion.
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Editorial.
December 1, 2008... The theme of the Eighth International Conference of the Australasian Children's Literature Association for Research (ACLAR), held at Victoria University of Wellington on 27-29 June 2008, was 'Other Worlds in Children's Literature: Fantasy, Reality and Imagination'. The topics of the 76 papers...
Fantasy as epanalepsis: 'an anticipation of retrospection'.
December 1, 2008... I begin with a paragraph that unaccountably disappeared when something I wrote for the book The Gothic in Children s Literature, transferred from my computer to the publisher's computer. Somehow or other, a paragraph in my essay on the vampire novel, Thirsty, went missing. I like the missing...
'Abandoned boys' and 'pampered princes': fantasy as the journey to reality in the Harry Potter sequence.
December 1, 2008... With the publication of the seventh and final novel in the Harry Potter sequence, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007), it is at last possible to judge not only the thematic agendas of the sequence but also its overarching narrative strategy. The early novels of the Harry Potter series...
Fantasy motif metaphors: magical powers as exceptionality in Disney's The Incredibles and Zizou Corder's Lion Boy trilogy.
December 1, 2008... While works of the fantasy genre convey literal stories which make sense according to the laws of their fictional worlds, the very impossibilities of these narratives invite further readings of their 'secondary or tertiary levels of meaning' (Bleiler 1983, p.vii; also see McGillis 1996a,...
'Do what you wish or wish what you want?' Michael Ende's Fantastica and Rudolf Steiner's moral imagination.
December 1, 2008... In Ende's The Neverending Story, a boy named Bastian travels into the fantasy world of Fantastica which is being eaten up by 'Nothing' (Ende 1983, p. 19). He saves this ailing world by giving a new name to its ruler, the Childlike Empress, and goes on to create a new Fantastica through...