Bridges for the young : the fiction of Katherine Paterson / edited by M. Sarah Smedman and Joel D. Chaston.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smedman, M. Sarah, 1931-

Chaston, Joel, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paterson, Katherine--Criticism and interpretation.

Paterson, Katherine.

Children's stories, American--History and criticism.

Children's stories, American.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

ix, 330 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Children's Literature Association : Scarecrow Press, 2003.

Contents:

Part 1 Bridges to the Reader: Narratology and Reader Response

"A Good Oyster": Story and Meaning in Jacob Have I Loved / M. Sarah Smedman 9

The Art of Self-Deceit: Narrative Strategies in Katherine Paterson's Novels / Maria Nikolajeva 18

Feminist Dialogics in Katherine Paterson's Novels / Roberta Seelinger Trites 41

Katherine Paterson's Ultimate Realism / Nancy Huse 53

Part 2 Bridges to Literary Worlds: Intertextuality and Literacy

Pine Groves and Public Parks: Katherine Paterson's "Secret Gardens" / Joel D. Chaston 63

"We Can Stil Hop" [sic]: Lyddie and Jip, His Story as Literacy Narratives / Linda Benson 87

Paterson and Park's Quest: Myth, Metaphor, Metonymy? / Nancy Huse 108

Bathrobes and Bibles, Waves and Words in Katherine Paterson's Jacob Have I Loved / James Holt McGavran 123

Part 3 Bridges to the World: Nature, History, and the Arts

Lost Garden: Glimpses of Eden in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Katherine Paterson's Bridge to Terabithia and Jacob Have I Loved / Elizabeth Raum 137

A Reconciliation with Asia, Female, and Other: Regeneration of Masculinity in Park's Quest / Yoshida Junko 158

The Historical Authenticity of Lyddie and Jip, His Story / Laura Mandell Zaidman 172

Flute Solos and Songs That Make You Shatter: Simple Melodies in Katherine Paterson's Fiction / Joel D. Chaston 188

Part 4 Bridges to the Soul: Theology and Philosophy

"In God's Delightful Company": Katherine Paterson's Feminist Theology / M. Sarah Smedman 200

"Forgive Them Their Trespasses": Christian Ethic and the Concept of Forgiveness in Katherine Paterson's Jacob Have I Loved and Preacher's Boy / Karen Patricia Smith 235

To "Endure the Loss of Paradise": Katherine Paterson's Modernist Endings for a Postmodern World / Anita Tarr 254

The Hope of the Shared Burden: Paradigmatic Shifting in the Literary Folktales and Retellings of Katherine Paterson / Gary Schmidt 268

Part 5 Authorial Bridges

Building Bridges to the Young / Katherine Paterson 293

Katherine Paterson: An Annotated Bibliography / Carol Hanson Sibley 298.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-316) and index.

ISBN:

0810844990

OCLC:

50339288