Diana Wynne Jones

The Editors: Teya Rosenberg, Assistant Professor of English at Southwest Texas State University, teaches courses in children’s literature and magical realism.Martha P. Hixon, Assistant Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University, teaches various children’s literature courses.Sharon M. Scapple, Associate Professor of English at Minnesota State University, Moorhead, has published on children’s and adolescent literature and teaches courses in fantasy.Donna R. White is author of A Century of Welsh Myth in Children’s Literature (1998) and Dancing with Dragons: Ursula K. Le Guin and the Critics (1999).

• Contents: Teya Rosenberg: Introduction – Karen Sands-O’Connor: Nowhere To Go, No One To Be: Diana Wynne Jones and the Concepts of Englishness and Self-Image – Maria Nikolajeva: Heterotopia as a Reflection of Postmodern Consciousness in the Works of Diana Wynne Jones – Karina Hill: Dragons and Quantum Foam: Mythic Archetypes and Modern Physics in Selected Works by Diana Wynne Jones – Deborah Kaplan: Diana Wynne Jones and the World-Shaping Power of Language – Charles Butler: Now Here: Where Now? Magic as Metaphor and as Reality in the Writing of Diana Wynne Jones – Sarah Fiona Winters: Good and Evil in the Works of Diana Wynne Jones and J. K. Rowling – Martha P. Hixon: The Importance of Being Nowhere: Narrative Dimensions and Their Interplay in Fire and Hemlock – Akiko Yamazaki: Fire and Hemlock: A Text as a Spellcoat – Sharon M. Scapple: Transformation of Myth in A Tale of Time City – Donna R. White: Living in Limbo: The Homeward Bounders as a Metaphor for Military Childhood – Alice Mills: The Trials and Tribulations of Two Dogsbodies: A Jungian Reading of Diana Wynne Jones’s Dogsbody – Marilynn S. Olson: Cats and Aliens in the Unreal City: T. S. Eliot, Diana Wynne Jones, and the Urban Experience – Charles Butler: Interview with Diana Wynne Jones.