International Companion Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature
different paths for further study. Their relationship is stimulating and enriching, each helping the other to discover what it i ...
to them. It needed writers of distinction to add an extra dimension to the genre. Robert Westall’s The Scarecrows (1981) painful ...
personal growth of her characters, and particularly of the two boys when they go in search of the father they know they need in ...
While relationships may be centre stage for many during the years of physical and emotional changes, vital world issues are also ...
Martin Waddell, under the pseudonym Catherine Sefton, has also written about the problems of growing up in Northern Ireland wher ...
all aspects of society, present, past and in the future. While the impetus for teenage fiction may have come from the need to pr ...
33 Metafictions and Experimental Work Robyn McCallum The term ‘metafiction’ is used to refer to fiction which self-consciously d ...
closure. Implied readers are thereby positioned in more active interpretive roles. By foregrounding the discursive and narrative ...
fiction can be self-reflexive in any simple way, however, is to confuse the signifying and referential functions of the linguist ...
identifiable metafictive narrative techniques and discursive strategies is to reduce the possibilities of critical insight and a ...
Intertextuality and parody The term intertextuality covers the range of literary and cultural texts, discourses, genres and conv ...
undermining the contrived fictionality of the ending of the novel. Jan Mark’s Finders Losers opens with a note addressed to a na ...
has been exploited by writers such as Gillian Rubinstein and Pratchett. In Beyond the Labyrinth (1988) Rubinstein’s main charact ...
culture, out of which Jo’s narrative is constructed. Furthermore, these fictions also inform and obscure the perceptions and int ...
abstracted drawings based on ‘the idea of making patterns in which the real object disappeared’ (1980/1987:31), descriptions of ...
The combination of typographical experimentation and overt genre mixing is widespread in recent popular children’s fiction, but ...
narration to date are Alan Garner’s Red Shift (1973) and Jill Paton Walsh’s Unleaving (1976). Postmodernist historiographic meta ...
non-experimental writing for children lies in the audience positions constructed within texts. As experimental and metafictive f ...
Oneal, Z. (1980/1987) The Language of Goldfish, London: Gollancz. Prince, G. (1987/1988) A Dictionary of Narratology, Aldershot: ...
34 Major Authors’ Work for Children Marian Allsobrook Established authors, when they address the child reader, often have in min ...
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