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050 00 $aPR6051.L588$bZ57 2014
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245 00 $aDavid Almond /$cedited by Rosemary Ross Johnston.
264 1 $aHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;$aNew York :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2014.
300 $axiii, 205 pages ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aNew casebooks
520 $a"David Almond is critically acclaimed as one of the most innovative authors writing for children and young people today. This collection of original essays by international leaders in children's literature criticism provides a theoretically-informed overview of his work as well as a fresh analysis of individual texts"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: -- Series Editor's Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- Key to Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: David Almond and Mystical Realism; Rosemary Ross Johnston -- 1. Living Just Beyond the Wall: Versions of the Savage in David Almond's Novels; Perry Nodelman -- 2. Ontology, Epistemology, and Values: Philosophy and Cognitive Science in David Almond's Skellig and My Name is Mina; Roberta Seelinger Trites -- 3. The Possibilities of Becoming: Process-Relational Theology in the Works of David Almond; Karen Coats -- 4. 'A Sense Sublime': Religious Resonances in the Work of David Almond; Valerie Coghlan -- 5. Birdmen from the Depths of the Earth: Radical Landscape in the Fiction of David Almond; Nolan Dalrymple -- 6. 'They thought we had disappeared, and they were wrong': The Depiction of Working Class in Almond's Novels; Carole Dunbar -- 7. 'Melting and Opening Underfoot': Almond's Heaven Eyes as a Complex Variation; Perry Nodelman -- 8. The Transcendent in David Almond's Play Wild Girl, Wild Boy; Michael Levy -- 9. Of Writing: The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean: telt by hisself; Rosemary Ross Johnston -- Appendix: The David Almond Archive at Seven Stories, National Centre for Children's Books; Hannah Izod -- Further Reading -- Index.
600 10 $aAlmond, David,$d1951-$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aYoung adult literature, English$xHistory and criticism.
650 7 $aLITERARY COLLECTIONS$xEssays.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM$xEuropean$xEnglish, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM$xChildren's Literature.$2bisacsh
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411635
600 17 $aAlmond, David,$d1951-$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00194608
650 7 $aYoung adult literature, English.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01183153
700 1 $aJohnston, Rosemary Ross,$eeditor.
830 0 $aNew casebooks (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
852 00 $bglx$hPR6051.L588$iZ57 2014