Research Catalog

Title

David Almond / edited by Rosemary Ross Johnston.

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

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Additional Authors

Ross Johnston, Rosemary

Description

xiii, 205 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"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"--

Series Statement

New casebooks

Uniform Title

New casebooks (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

Subjects

• Young adult literature, English
• LITERARY CRITICISM > Children's Literature
• LITERARY COLLECTIONS > Essays
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Young adult literature, English > History and criticism
• LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
• Almond, David, 1951- > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-203) and index.

Contents

Machine 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.

Call Number

JFD 14-5371

ISBN

• 9781137301161 (hardback)
• 1137301163 (hardback)
• 9781137301154 (paperback)
• 1137301155 (paperback)

LCCN

2014021332

OCLC

880757127

Title

David Almond / edited by Rosemary Ross Johnston.

Publisher

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

New casebooks

New casebooks (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-203) and index.

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Added Author

Ross Johnston, Rosemary, editor.

Research Call Number

JFD 14-5371