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Product Identifiers

PublisherLittle, Brown Books for Young Readers

ISBN-10078685684X

ISBN-139780786856848

eBay Product ID (ePID)19038423553

Product Key Features

Book TitleShhh!

Number of Pages32 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGeneral, Stories in Verse (See Also Poetry)

Publication Year2005

IllustratorYes, Ross, Tony

GenreJuvenile Fiction

AuthorJeanne Willis

FormatPicture Book

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight13.8 Oz

Item Length11.7 in

Item Width8.9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceJuvenile Audience

LCCN2005-279645

Dewey Edition22

Grade FromPreschool

Grade ToSecond Grade

Dewey DecimalE

SynopsisThis volume is the first close examination of the rich and diverse body of medievalist texts produced in late colonial and early Federal (ie post-1901) Australia. It examines the many ways in which early Australian novelists, poets, and dramatists drew on the motifs, events, and personages of the medieval past, and places particular emphasis on how they used the European past to illuminate their sense of the Australian present. Broadly stated, the book argues that a study of early Australian medievalist literature and theatre uncovers a rich and revealing drama in which the forces of cultural nostalgia and cultural amnesia sometimes contended against one another, and sometimes harmonised, to produce a unique and distinctive corpus. The book significantly extends current knowledge about nineteenth-century literary and theatrical medievalism by offering an exploration of how medievalist discourses and idioms came to be taken up within a major, but as yet under-examined, branch of Anglophone literature. It aims also to broaden the cultural ambit of nineteenth-century medievalism by offering analyses of popular and ephemeral instances alongside more 'serious' medievalist texts. The study balances an interest in how this medievalism responded to local conditions with an interest in its international complexion, examining how Australian medievalist novels, poems, and plays, participated in imperial and transpacific intellectual and entertainment circuits.While the emphasis of the volume is on close, historically-contextualising interpretations of texts, it has woven through its arguments a series of meditations on such theoretical matters as how we determine the boundaries of medievalism, how we might develop an account of colonial medievalism as non-derivative, whether medievalist discourses are equally amenable across gender, class, and ideological lines, and how the premodern past is evoked as a means for formulating the present and the future. Louise D'Arcens is an Associate Professor in the English Literatures Program. Her two main current research areas are medievalism and medieval women's writing., This eloquently and brilliantly executed plea for peace offers a simple way for children to feel that their actions--even their silence--can make a difference. Full color., Everyone is talking too loud, and moving too fast. But no one seems to hear what's being said. What to do? A well-dressed shrew has all the answers. All you have to do is be still and listen . "One, two, three.Shhh!" This eloquent and brilliantly executed plea for peace offers a simple way for children to feel that their actions, and even their silence can make a difference.

LC Classification NumberPZ7.W68313Sh 2004