| Description |
1 online resource (259 pages) |
| Series |
Children's Literature and Culture |
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Children's literature and culture.
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| Contents |
Cover; Landscape in Children's Literature; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Sanctuary Topos: Sacred and Domestic Spaces; 2. The Green Topos: Gardens, Farms, Wilderness; 3. The Roadway Topos; 4. The Lapsed Topos: Caves, Graves, and Ruins; 5. Applications; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This book provides a new critical methodology for the study of landscapes in children's literature. Treating landscape as the integration of unchanging and irreducible physical elements, or topoi, Carroll identifies and analyses four kinds of space - sacred spaces, green spaces, roadways, and lapsed spaces - that are the component elements of the physical environments of canonical British children's fantasy. Using Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising Sequence as the test-case for this methodology, the book traces the development of the physical features and symbolic functions of lands |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Children's stories, English -- History and criticism
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Landscapes in literature.
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Setting (Literature)
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setting (surroundings)
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Children's stories, English
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Landscapes in literature
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Setting (Literature)
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136321184 |
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1136321187 |
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