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  • Considering The Female Man by Joanna Russ, or, As the Bear Swore
    Farah Mendlesohn
    Joanna Russ’s writing career was relatively short, running from 1968 to 1987, with a number of essay collections published in the years after that. Her fiction career consists of just six novels and four collections, but each of the novels she published challenged engrained conventions of the genre. This exploration of The Female Man offers a close reading of the text, focussin...
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    24,49 €

  • Creating Memory
    Farah Mendlesohn
    This book considers the English Civil Wars and the civil wars in Scotland and Ireland through the lens of historical fiction-primarily fiction for the young. The text argues that the English Civil War lies at the heart of English and Irish political identities and considers how these identities have been shaped over the past three centuries in part by the children’s literature ...
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    39,22 €

  • Children’s Fantasy Literature
    Farah Mendlesohn / Michael Levy
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    40,52 €

  • A Short History of Fantasy
    Edward James / Farah Mendlesohn
    Some of the earliest books ever written, including The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Odyssey, deal with monsters, marvels, extraordinary voyages, and magic, and this genre, known as fantasy, remained an essential part of European literature through the rise of the modern realist novel. Tracing the history of fantasy from the earliest years through to the origins of modern fantasy i...
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    17,09 €

  • The Inter-Galactic Playground
    Farah Mendlesohn
    Science fiction is often considered the genre of ideas and imagination, which would seem to make it ideal for juveniles and young adults; however, the ideas are often dispensed by adults. This book considers the development of science fiction for children and teens between 1950 and 2010, exploring why it differs from science fiction aimed at adults. In a broader sense, this ...
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    50,00 €

  • Diana Wynne Jones
    Farah Mendlesohn
    British author Diana Wynne Jones has been writing speculative fiction for children for more than thirty years. A clear influence on more recent writers such as J. K. Rowling, her humorous and exciting stories of wizard’s academies, dragons, and griffins-many published for children but read by all ages-are also complexly structured and thought provoking critiques of the fantasy ...
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    98,82 €