Pagan Themes in Modern Children's Fiction: Green Man, Shamanism, Earth Mysteries

by P. Bramwell

Overview

Applying a range of critical approaches to works by authors including Susan Cooper, Catherine Fisher, Geraldine McCaughrean, Anthony Horowitz and Philip Pullman, this book looks at the formative and interrogative relationship between recent children's literature and fashionable but controversial aspects of modern Paganism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230218390
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	03/31/2009
Edition description:	2009
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

PETER BRAMWELL lectures for the Open University and the University of Sunderland, UK. Since gaining an MA in Children's Literature from Roehampton University he has continued to research in this area, and has contributed to Modern Children's Literature: An Introduction (edited by Kim Reynolds) and The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature (edited by Jack Zipes).

Table of Contents

Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Locating Paganism Herne the Hunter and the Green Man Shamanism and the Pull of the North Prehistoric Monuments, Witchcraft and Environmentalism Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

'...It's wide-ranging, but there's a critical intelligence with regard both to the literature and to paganism in its various forms...' - Dr Charles Butler

'Peter Bramwell's final sentence is perhaps the best way to begin this review: 'A creatively critical dialogue between [modern Paganism and children's fiction] is what this book has observed and perhaps, I hope, extended' (190). Pagan Themes in Modern Children's Fiction succeeds in initiating a dialogue well worth extending beyond these pages, both for Pagan Studies and children's-literature scholars.' - Dawn Comer, The Pomegranate: An International Journal of Pagan Studies

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