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Fantasy and the real world in British children's literature : the power of story
- Title
- Fantasy and the real world in British children's literature : the power of story / Caroline Webb.
- Author
- Webb, Caroline, 1961-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2015.
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Details
- Series Statement
- Children's literature and culture
- Uniform Title
- Children's literature and culture.
- Subject
- Children's literature, English > History and criticism
- Fantasy fiction, English > History and criticism
- Narration (Rhetoric)
- Reality in literature
- Storytelling in literature
- Rowling, J. K. > Criticism and interpretation
- Jones, Diana Wynne > Criticism and interpretation
- Pratchett, Terry > Criticism and interpretation
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-16
- ISBN
- 9780415722711 (hardback)
- 0415722713 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2014015791
- OCLC
- YBP 2014015791
- Author
- Webb, Caroline, 1961- author.
- Title
- Fantasy and the real world in British children's literature : the power of story / Caroline Webb.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2015.
- Description
- xi, 163 pages ; 24 cm.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Children's literature and cultureChildren's literature and culture.
- Summary
- "This study examines the children's books of three extraordinary British writers - J.K. Rowling, Diana Wynne Jones, and Terry Pratchett - and investigates their sophisticated use of narrative strategies not only to engage children in reading, but to educate them into becoming mature readers and indeed individuals. The book demonstrates how in quite different ways these writers establish reader expectations by drawing on conventions in existing genres only to subvert those expectations. Their strategies lead young readers to evaluate for themselves both the power of story to shape our understanding of the world and to develop a sense of identity and agency. Rowling, Jones, and Pratchett provide their readers with fantasies that are pleasurable and imaginative, but far from encouraging escape from reality, they convey important lessons about the complexities and challenges of the real world - and how these may be faced and solved. All three writers deploy the tropes and imaginative possibilities of fantasy to disturb, challenge, and enlarge the world of their readers"-- Provided by publisher.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 15-16