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Four British Fantasists - Place and Culture in the Children's Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper (Paperback)
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Four British Fantasists - Place and Culture in the Children's Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper (Paperback)
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Four British Fantasists explores the work of four of the most
successful and influential fantasy writers of the generation who
rose to prominence in the "second Golden Age" of children's
literature in Britain: Susan Cooper, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne
Jones, and Penelope Lively. Drawing on history, archeology, social
geography, anthropology, and postcolonial theory, as well as
literary criticism, Butler provides a series of new perspectives
through which to view these writers' achievements. He begins by
highlighting some points of biographic coincidence (e.g. all four
authors were children during WWII, all were born within a year or
two of each other, and all attended Oxford University in the early
1950s-when C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien were publishing their
seminal fantasies) and questions if these factors play any
significant role in the development of these fantasy writers. The
author then uses this question as the springboard for a case study
in the assessment of biographical and literary influence. The book
also considers the role played by Britain itself in determining the
shape and preoccupations of these writers' fiction. Britain is a
land with a long history in which contemporary life is constantly
juxtaposed with evidence of the past in the form of ancient
buildings, historic sites, and archeological remains. By placing
the work of Cooper, Garner, Jones, and Lively in the context of
British culture and of their own time, Butler provides a key to
their fascination with history, mythology, and magic, and to the
ways in which that fascination has found expression in their
fiction. Students of children's literature and of fantasy
literature as well as readers who are interested in the lives of
these four subject authors will find this an insightful read.
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