Alan Garner and the work of time

Robert Edgar is Professor of Writing and Popular Culture at York St John UniversityWayne Johnson is Senior Lecturer in Media and Film Studies at York St John UniversityJohn Marland is Senior Lecturer in Literature at York St John University

• Foreword – Bob FischerIntroduction: Alan Garner and the work of time – Robert Edgar, Wayne Johnson and John Marland1 Placeworntime: wounds in the worlds of the Cheshire-Staffordshire border – Wayne Johnson2 Alan Garner and folk fantasy in The Weirdstone of Brisingamen – Robert O’Connor3 The view from the vanishing point: time, memory, and the eerie in Elidor – Christian Wilken4 The melancholy matter of Britain: Alan Garner’s The Owl Service – Andrew M. Butler5 ‘Aback of everything’: Time and myth in The Stone Book Quartet – Becky Long6 Dancing on the Edge: Alan Garner’s Shamanic art in Thursbitch – John Marland7 ‘We both look, but we see differently.’ History, Landscape and Eighteenth-Century Folk in Thursbitch – Adam James Smith8 Boneland – Maureen Kincaid Speller (with an introduction by Paul Kincaid)9 Are you alright, Colin?: Brisingamen to Boneland and back – Natalie Wilkins10 Strandloper, Treacle Walker and Unified Field Theory – Robert Edgar11 Circles in the eternal: practice, place and deep time in the work of Alan Garner – Fiona CameronAfterwordsStones, bones, Mr Garner and me: reconsidering The Weirdstone of Brisingamen – Barbara FrostThin places: Where Shall We Run To? – Roz Morris