Seriality and Texts for Young People

The Compulsion to Repeat
2014. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-35599-7
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 4925 g

Reihe: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature

Seriality and Texts for Young People is a collection of thirteen scholarly essays about series and serial texts directed to children and youth, each of which begins from the premise that a basic principle of seriality is repetition.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reimer, M.

Ali, N.

England, D.

Unrau, M Dennis

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Compulsion to Repeat; Mavis Reimer, Nyala Ali, Deanna England, and Melanie Dennis Unrau 1. Off to See the Wizard Again and Again; Laurie Langbauer 2. 'Anne repeated': Taking Anne Out of Order; Laura M. Robinson 3. Kierkegaard's Repetition and the Reading Pleasures of Repetition in Diana Wynne Jones's Howl's Moving Castle Series; Rose Lovell-Smith 4. Harry Potter Fans Discover the Pleasures of Transfiguration; Eliza T. Dresang and Kathleen Campana 5. Girls, Animals, Fear, and the Iterative Force of the National Pack: Reading the Dear Canada Series; Charlie Peters 6. 'But what is his country?': Producing Australian Identity through Repetition in the Victorian School Paper, 1896-1918; Michelle J. Smith 7. Serializing Scholarship: (Re)Producing Girlhood in Atalanta; Kristine Moruzi 8. 'I will not / be haunted / by myself!': Originality, Derivation, and the Hauntology of the Superhero Comic; Brandon Christopher 9. Michael Yahgulanaas's Red and the Structures of SequentialArt; Perry Nodelman 10. The Beloved That Does Not Bite: Genre, Myth, and Repetition in Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Debra Dudek 11. Roy and the Wimp: The Nature of an Aesthetic of Unfinish; Margaret Mackey 12. MP3 as Contentious Message: When Infinite Repetition Fuses with the Acoustic Sphere; Larissa Wodtke 13. The Little Transgender Mermaid: A Shape-Shifting Tale; Nat Hurley Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kathleen Campana, University of Washington, USA Brandon Christopher, University of Winnipeg, Canada Eliza T. Dresang, University of Washington, USA Debra Dudek, University of Wollongong, Australia Nat Hurley, University of Alberta, Canada Laurie Langbauer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Rose Lovell-Smith, University of Auckland, New Zealand Margaret Mackey, University of Alberta, Canada Kristine Moruzi, Deakin University, Australia Perry Nodelman, The University of Winnipeg, Canada Charlie Peters, Independent Scholar, Canada Laura Robinson, Royal Military College of Canada, Canada Michelle J. Smith, Deakin University, Australia Larissa Wodtke, University of Winnipeg, Canada