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Title Seriality and texts for young people : the compulsion to repeat / edited by Mavis Reimer, Nyala Ali, Deanna England and Melanie Dennis Unrau
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 292 pages) : illustrations
Series Critical approaches to children's literature, 2753-0833
Critical approaches to children's literature.
Contents Introduction: The Compulsion to Repeat; Mavis Reimer, Nyala Ali, Deanna England, and Melanie Dennis Unrau -- 1. Off to See the Wizard Again and Again; Laurie Langbauer -- 2.'Anne repeated': Taking Anne Out of Order; Laura M. Robinson -- 3. Kierkegaard's Repetition and the Reading Pleasures of Repetition in Diana Wynne Jones's "Howl's Moving Castle" Series; Rose Lovell-Smith -- 4."Harry Potter" Fans Discover the Pleasures of Transfiguration; Eliza T. Dresang and Kathleen Campana -- 5. Girls, Animals, Fear, and the Iterative Force of the National Pack: Reading the "Dear Canada" Series; Charlie Peters -- 6.'But what is his country?': Producing Australian Identity through Repetition in the Victorian School Paper, 1896-1918; Michelle J. Smith -- 7. Serializing Scholarship: (Re)Producing Girlhood in Atalanta; Kristine Moruzi -- 8.'I will not / be haunted / by myself!': Originality, Derivation, and the Hauntology of the Superhero Comic; Brandon Christopher -- 9. Michael Yahgulanaas's "Red" and the Structures of Sequential Art; Perry Nodelman -- 10. The Beloved That Does Not Bite: Genre, Myth, and Repetition in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"; Debra Dudek -- 11. Roy and the Wimp: The Nature of an Aesthetic of Unfinish; Margaret Mackey -- 12. MP3 as Contentious Message: When Infinite Repetition Fuses with the Acoustic Sphere; Larissa Wodtke -- 13. The Little Transgender Mermaid: A Shape-Shifting Tale; Nat Hurley
Summary "Seriality and Texts for Young People is a collection of thirteen original, scholarly essays about series and serial texts directed to children and youth. Each begins from the premise that a basic principle of seriality is repetition and explores what that means for a range of primary texts, including popular narrative series for children, comics, magazines, TV series, and digital texts. Contributors featured include internationally-recognised scholars such as Perry Nodelman, Margaret Mackey and Laurie Langbauer, and the essays cover texts such as the Harry Potter novels, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Anne of Green Gables. The introduction provides a framework for the detailed explorations, reviewing some of the most important contemporary theories of repetition, pointing to some key criticism on series, and speculating on the significance of the series form for the field of young people's texts"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Electronic resource, viewed: February 27, 2024
Subject Children's literature -- History and criticism
Repetition in literature
Young adult fiction -- History and criticism
Repetition (Rhetoric)
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Children's Literature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
Repetition (Rhetoric)
Children's literature
Repetition in literature
Young adult fiction
Upprepningar i litteraturen.
Bokserier.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Reimer, Mavis, editor.
Ali, Nyala, 1982- editor.
England, Deanna, editor.
Unrau, Melanie Dennis, editor.
LC no. 2014026139
ISBN 9781137356000
1137356006