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Pagan Themes in Modern Children's Fiction: Green Man, Shamanism, Earth Mysteries
Peter Bramwell
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Description for Pagan Themes in Modern Children's Fiction: Green Man, Shamanism, Earth Mysteries
Hardcover. Applying a range of critical approaches to works by authors including Susan Cooper, Catherine Fisher, Geraldine McCaughrean, Anthony Horowitz and Philip Pullman, this book looks at the formative and interrogative relationship between recent children's literature and fashionable but controversial aspects of modern Paganism. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; DSY; HRKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
Applying a range of critical approaches to works by authors including Susan Cooper, Catherine Fisher, Geraldine McCaughrean, Anthony Horowitz and Philip Pullman, this book looks at the formative and interrogative relationship between recent children's literature and fashionable but controversial aspects of modern Paganism.
Applying a range of critical approaches to works by authors including Susan Cooper, Catherine Fisher, Geraldine McCaughrean, Anthony Horowitz and Philip Pullman, this book looks at the formative and interrogative relationship between recent children's literature and fashionable but controversial aspects of modern Paganism.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230218390
SKU
V9780230218390
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Ref
99-15
About Peter Bramwell
PETER BRAMWELL lectures for the Open University and the University of Sunderland, UK. Since gaining an MA in Children's Literature from Roehampton University he has continued to research in this area, and has contributed to Modern Children's Literature: An Introduction (edited by Kim Reynolds) and The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature (edited by Jack Zipes).
Reviews for Pagan Themes in Modern Children's Fiction: Green Man, Shamanism, Earth Mysteries
'...It's wide-ranging, but there's a critical intelligence with regard both to the literature and to paganism in its various forms...' - Dr Charles Butler 'Peter Bramwell's final sentence is perhaps the best way to begin this review: 'A creatively critical dialogue between [modern Paganism and children's fiction] is what this book has observed and perhaps, I hope, ... Read more