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Title
Magical Tales – Myth, Legend and Enchantment in Children?s Books
Contributor
Edited by Diane Purkiss
ISBN
1851242643
EAN
9781851242641
Binding
Paperback / softback
Genre
Literature: history & criticism
Height
22.10
Length
187.96
Width
173.99
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Magical Tales – Myth, Legend and Enchantment in Children?s Books
Artist
Purkiss, Diane
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Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Book Title
Magical Tales: Myth, Legend and Enchantment in Children's Books
Item Height
190mm
Author
Carolyne Larrington, Diane Purkiss
Publisher
Bodleian Library
Topic
Mythology
Item Width
175mm
Item Weight
557g
Number of Pages
200 Pages

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A faun carrying an umbrella; a hobbit who lives in a hole; a mysterious name - Lyra; an ill-treated schoolboy with a scar and a secret. Children's fantasy books often begin with resonant images. However, they also begin in an author's reading practices. How do children's authors incorporate myths and legends into their work? And how do myths and legends change as a result? In this richly illustrated collection of essays a team of academic experts trace the magical tales from Norse myth, Arthurian legend and medieval literature which have inspired the finest writers for children, including C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and Alan Garner. Drawing on collections of manuscripts and rare books in the Bodleian Library, additional chapters put the spotlight on spell books, grimoires and books that do magic, as well as exploring stunning examples of pop-up books, harlequinades and concertina panoramas from the Opie Collection of Children's Literature. Other writers under discussion include children's authors of the Victorian era, such as George MacDonald, Rudyard Kipling and E. Nesbit, and twentieth-century writers Susan Cooper, Diana Wynne Jones and Philip Pullman. Through wide-ranging analysis these essays show how literature and tales from the Middle Ages and earlier still have been reinterpreted for each generation and continue to have a profound impact on writers of fantasy books for children today.

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Bodleian Library
ISBN-13
9781851242641
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Book Title
Magical Tales: Myth, Legend and Enchantment in Children's Books
Author
Carolyne Larrington, Diane Purkiss
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Mythology
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
200 Pages

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Item Height
190mm
Item Width
175mm
Item Weight
557g

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Editor
Diane Purkiss, Carolyne Larrington
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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