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An important and perceptive contribution to the study of children's literature, this welcome reissue includes a new postscript exploring in detail the phenomenal success of J.K.Rowling's series of Harry Potter stories.

Title Narratives of love and loss : studies in modern children's fiction / Margaret Rustin.
Edition Revised ed.
Publisher London : Routledge
Creation Date 2018
Notes Originally published: London: Verso, 1987.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content COVER
Contents
PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Introduction: Deep Structures in Modern Children's Fiction
1. Loneliness, Dreaming and Discovery: Tom's Midnight Garden
2. Narnia: An Imaginary Land as Container of Moral and Emotional Adventure
3. Magic Wishes and the Self Explorations of Children: Five Children and It
4. The Life of Dolls: Rumer Godden's Understanding of Children's Imaginative Play
5. The Maternal Capacities of a Small Boy: The Indian in the Cupboard
6. Animals in Reality and Fantasy: Two Stories by Philippa Pearce
7. The Poetic Power of Ordinary Speech: E. B. White's Children's Stories8. Who Believes in 'Borrowers'?
9. Making Out in America: The Mouse and His Child
10. Inner Implications of Extended Traumas: Carrie's War
11. Finding Oneself among Strangers: Three Stories by Paula Fox
Conclusions: Explorations of Loss
NOTES
POSTSCRIPT: The Inner World of Harry Potter
LIST OF PRINCIPAL WORKS DISCUSSED
INDEX
Extent 1 online resource (315 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010717028705171
MARC RECORDS
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