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Maguire, Gregory.

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Themes in English language: Fantastic literature for children, 1938-1988.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Themes in English language: Fantastic literature for children, 1938-1988./
Author:	Maguire, Gregory.
Description:	374 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 51-06, Section: A, page: 2013.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International51-06A.
Subject:	Literature, English. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9028608

Themes in English language: Fantastic literature for children, 1938-1988.
Maguire, Gregory.

Themes in English language: Fantastic literature for children, 1938-1988. - 374 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 51-06, Section: A, page: 2013.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tufts University, 1990.

Original fantastic literature written for children had its first flowering at the midpoint of Victoria's reign in England and fell off in the decade of the First World War. Commonly understood to have flourished again in the middle of the twentieth century, fantasy enjoyed a so-called "second golden age" which is less the result of stable Western governments and societies than a reaction to the energetic anxiety which preceded World War II. This study posits a rich and coherent literary period ushered in by the near simultaneous publication of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and T. H. White's The Sword in the Stone in the late 1930's. Significantly more mythopoeic than whimsical, fantasies of the second golden age answer the desires of children for adventure, security at home, and identity at large. Themes emerging in this period are all related to the themes of the great fantasies by the Victorians and Edwardians, but are transformed in the light of modern uncertainty and social upheaval. These themes include the desires for heroism, adventure, and otherness; for domestic safety, friends and family, and a sense of belonging in the cycle of nature; for awareness of one's place in metaphysical or religious reality as well as in the reaches of incomprehensible time. As the tensions which have gripped East-West relations in the fifty years since World War II undergo dramatic changes, so too the current flourishing of fantasy for children seems to be metamorphosing.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017709
Literature, English.

Themes in English language: Fantastic literature for children, 1938-1988.
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