ALPH: Arbeiten zur Literarischen Phantastik / ALPH: Approaches to Literary Phantasy – serie
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Intertextuality and Psychology in P. L. Travers’ «Mary Poppins» Books
Av Julia Kunz
Inbunden, 2014
539 kr
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As we approach the seventieth anniversary of the first appearance of Mary Poppins, interest in P. L. Travers most famous creation is still strong and the time is right for a reassessment of a work that is rich in meaning for child and adult readers alike. This book attempts to analyse some of the …
Narrating Ancient Egypt
The Representation of Ancient Egypt in Nineteenth-Century and Early-Twentieth-Century Fantastic Fiction
Inbunden, 2015
1005 kr
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Ancient and modern Egypt feature in numerous fantastic stories by Victorian and Edwardian writers. This book explores how works of popular Egyptianising fantastic literature can be read as critical texts which comment on the Oriental mind-set of Europe, and especially Britain. The analysis of the …
H. G. Wells’s «Fin-de-Siècle»
Twenty-first Century Reflections on the Early H. G. Wells- Selections from «The Wellsian»
Häftad, 2007
495 kr
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The essays contained in this collection focus on the early H. G. Wells, the scientific romancer, the comic novelist and the young author discovering the literary élite. Written at the crossroads of a new century, the authors of these essays use their own fin-de-siècle experiences to look back one …
Myth of Cokaygne in Children’s Literature
The Consuming and the Consumed Child
Av Franziska Burstyn, Alexandra Lembert-Heidenreich
Häftad, 2011
308 kr
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In the English-speaking world, the medieval concept of Cokaygne as a paradisiac landscape made of food is merely preserved as a part of American folklore, the «Big Rock Candy Mountain». This motif of food in abundance is recurrent in children’s literature, which is discussed here first of all from …
Ghosts – or the (Nearly) Invisible
Spectral Phenomena in Literature and the Media
Inbunden, 2016
701 kr
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In this volume, ghost stories are studied in the context of their media, their place in history and geography. From prehistory to this day, we have been haunted by our memories, the past itself, by inklings of the future, by events playing outside our lives, and by ourselves. Hence the lure of …
