Research Catalog

Title

From mythic to linear : time in children's literature / Maria Nikolajeva.

Author

Nikolajeva, Maria

Publication

Lanham, Md. : Children's Literature Association : Scarecrow Press, 2000.

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Details

Subject

• Children's literature > History and criticism
• Children > Books and reading
• Time in literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-293) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A Time to Be Born, and a Time to Diep1 -- An Excursus on Significant Meals -- Secret Gardens, Enchanted Places -- Paradise Lost and Regained -- The Sacral Time -- Collective Experience, Adult View -- The Domestic Story as Utopia -- Noisy Village--The Swedish Arcadia -- Children, Animals, and Toys -- Gastronomic Utopias -- Social Utopias -- A Destroyed Paradise -- A Utopia of Mites -- The Omnipotent Child -- Trolls in the Baltic Woods -- Children in Power--King Matt -- The Haunting of Time -- Puer Aeternus -- Land of (Condensed) Milk and Honey -- Midnight Gardens, Magic Wells -- A Wise Progenitrix or a Seductive Witch? -- A Grown-Up's Nostalgia -- Picnic in the Unknown, or There and Back Again -- You Are Dead. Press Escape to Play Again -- Awfully Big Adventure -- A Variety of Picnics -- Where Have All the Young Girls Gone? -- A Girl in Disguise -- Travellers in Time--A Female Initiation -- An Essential Link in Some Unknown Context -- Breaking Away -- The Promise of Happiness? -- Toward Linearity -- Meeting Shadows -- Mother's Bread -- Bridges into Adulthood -- Beyond the Point of No Return -- Deeper and Deeper into Dark Mysteries of Life -- Feasts of Life and Death -- Mission Complete--Mission Failed -- From Idyll to Collapse -- In the Enchanted Place -- Quest for Self-Knowledge -- Meeting with Death -- Breaking Away -- Disintegration -- Except Ye Be Converted, and Become As Little Children.

ISBN

0810837137 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^99055126^

OCLC

• 42812900
• SCSB-10526945

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library