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Product Description: Quakers in the 20th century redefined their pacifist witness to include relief for the victims of war. Drawing upon research in archives plus interviews with surviving participants, Farah Mendlesohn provides an account of British and American friends' relief to both sides in the Spanish Civil war...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780773472761 | Edwin Mellen Pr, January 1, 2002, cover price $139.95 | About this edition: Quakers in the 20th century redefined their pacifist witness to include relief for the victims of war.
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Hardcover:
9780521816267 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 1, 2003, cover price $115.00
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9780521016575 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 1, 2003, cover price $34.99
Product Description: British author Diana Wynne Jones has been writing speculative fiction for children for more than thirty years. A clear influence on more recent writers such as J. K. Rowling, her humorous and exciting stories of wizard's academies, dragons, and griffins-many published for children but read by all ages-are also complexly structured and thought provoking critiques of the fantasy tradition...read more
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9780415970235 | Routledge, September 1, 2005, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: British author Diana Wynne Jones has been writing speculative fiction for children for more than thirty years.
Transcending arguments over the definition of fantasy literature, Rhetorics of Fantasy introduces a provocative new system of classification for the genre. Utilizing nearly two hundred examples of modern fantasy, author Farah Mendlesohn uses this system to explore how fiction writers construct their fantastic worlds. Mendlesohn posits four categories of fantasy-portal-quest, immersive, intrusion, and liminal-that arise out of the relationship of the protagonist to the fantasy world. Using these sets, Mendlesohn argues that the author's stylistic decisions are then shaped by the inescapably political demands of the category in which they choose to write. Each chapter covers at least twenty books in detail, ranging from nineteenth-century fantasy and horror to extensive coverage of some of the best books in the contemporary field. Offering a wide-ranging discussion and penetrating comparative analysis, Rhetorics of Fantasy will excite fans and provide a wealth of material for scholarly and classroom discussion. Includes discussion of works by over 100 authors, including Lloyd Alexander, Peter Beagle, Marion Zimmer Bradley, John Crowley, Stephen R. Donaldson, Stephen King, C. S. Lewis, Gregory Maguire, Robin McKinley, China Mieville, Suniti Namjoshi, Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Sheri S. Tepper, J. R. R. Tolkien, Tad Williams
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9780819568670 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, April 30, 2008, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Transcending arguments over the definition of fantasy literature, Rhetorics of Fantasy introduces a provocative new system of classification for the genre.
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9780819568687 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, April 30, 2008, cover price $28.95
Product Description: Joanna Russ, a feminist writer best known for The Female Man (1975), has produced a fierce, intense body of fiction and essays whose influence has been wide-ranging and complex. Her many publications include How to Suppress Womenâs Writing (1983), and she has won both of science fiction's most prestigious awards, the Nebula and the Hugo...read more
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9780819569011 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, March 2, 2009, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: This title provides essays on one of science fiction and feminism's most original voices.
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9780819569028 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, March 2, 2009, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Joanna Russ, a feminist writer best known for The Female Man (1975), has produced a fierce, intense body of fiction and essays whose influence has been wide-ranging and complex.
Product Description: Science fiction is often considered the genre of ideas and imagination, which would seem to make it ideal for juveniles and young adults; however, the ideas are often dispensed by adults. This book considers the development of science fiction for children and teens between 1950 and 2010, exploring why it differs from science fiction aimed at adults...read more
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9780786435036 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, July 1, 2009, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Science fiction is often considered the genre of ideas and imagination, which would seem to make it ideal for juveniles and young adults; however, the ideas are often dispensed by adults.
Hardcover:
9780521429597 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 27, 2012, cover price $110.00
Paperback:
9780521728737 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 27, 2012, cover price $29.99
Fantasy has been an important and much-loved part of children's literature for hundreds of years, yet relatively little has been written about it. Children's Fantasy Literature traces the development of the tradition of the children's fantastic - fictions specifically written for children and fictions appropriated by them - from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century, examining the work of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, C. S. Lewis, Roald Dahl, J. K. Rowling and others from across the English-speaking world. The volume considers changing views on both the nature of the child and on the appropriateness of fantasy for the child reader, the role of children's fantasy literature in helping to develop the imagination, and its complex interactions with issues of class, politics and gender. The text analyses hundreds of works of fiction, placing each in its appropriate context within the tradition of fantasy literature.
Hardcover:
9781107018143 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 30, 2016, cover price $84.99
Paperback:
9781107610293 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 16, 2016, cover price $27.99 | About this edition: Fantasy has been an important and much-loved part of children's literature for hundreds of years, yet relatively little has been written about it.
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