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Re-enchanted : the rise of children's fantasy literature in the twentieth century / Maria Sachiko Cecire.
Van Pelt Library PN1009.5.F37 C43 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cecire, Maria Sachiko, 1983- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's literature--History and criticism.
- Children's literature.
- Fantasy literature--History and criticism.
- Fantasy literature.
- Fantasy fiction--History and criticism.
- Fantasy fiction.
- Fantastic, The, in literature.
- Fantasy in literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 345 pages ; 22 cm
- Other Title:
- Rise of children's fantasy literature in the twentieth century
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "Re-enchanted provides a timely analysis and alternative genealogy for children's fantasy literature, its medieval predecessors, and pop cultural afterlives. With a focus on works by authors including J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Susan Cooper, Kevin Crossley Holland, J.K. Rowling, Junot Díaz, and George R.R. Martin, Maria Sachiko Cecire engages with key debates around what constitutes "high" and "low" culture in the face of current and historical crises in the humanities, political and affective uses of childhood and the mythological past, the anxieties of modernity, and the social impact of racially charged origin stories."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction. Magic in the minor: fantasy, medievalism, and the otherworlds of childhood
- Relegated to the nursery: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis's antimodernism
- Alternate canons: Oxford English and the rise of children's fantasy
- Where are you, Christmas? Spaces of childhood, bridges to enchantment
- White magic: racial innocence and empires of the mind
- Your inner child of the past: fantasy revisions and the postironic turn
- Conclusion: Magical multiplicity.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Cecire, Maria Sachiko, 1983- Re-enchanted.
- ISBN:
- 9781517906573
- 1517906571
- 9781517906580
- 151790658X
- OCLC:
- 1091655754
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