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First published in 1998 , A Guide to Children's Reference Books and
Multi Material provides essential information on over 250
children's reference products for parents, teachers and librarians
wishing to purchase the best books and multimedia material in the
late 90's.
The Child That Haunts Us focuses on the symbolic use of the
child archetype through the exploration of miniature characters
from the realms of children s literature.
Jung argued that the child archetype should never be mistaken
for the real child. In this book Susan Hancock considers how the
child is portrayed in literature and fairytale and explores the
suggestion from Jung and Bachelard that the symbolic resonance of
the miniature is inversely proportionate to its size.
We encounter many instances where the miniature characters are a
visibly vulnerable other, yet often these occur in association with
images of the supernatural, as the desired or feared object of
adult imagination. In The Child That Haunts Us it is emphasised
that the treatment by any society, past or present, of its smallest
and most vulnerable members is truly revealing of the values it
really holds.
This original and sensitive exploration will be of particular
interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as
academics engaged in Jungian studies, children s literature,
childhood studies and those with an interest in socio-cultural
constructions of childhood.
First published in 1998 , A Guide to Children's Reference Books and
Multi Material provides essential information on over 250
children's reference products for parents, teachers and librarians
wishing to purchase the best books and multimedia material in the
late 90's.
The Peastick Girl tells the story of Teresa Matheson, her sisters
Mollie and Cass, and the untimely and mysterious death of their
mother. Teresa has returned to Wellington after five years in
Melbourne where she has written a quest novel for younger readers,
had two affairs, and met the demon Arkeum. Haunted by childhood
memories and visions she is isolated in a house near her family
home. What is and what might have been intriguingly converge. She
is rescued by the return of Nikolai, her Russian lover. In a
remote, seemingly fairytale location she finally stumbles across
the truth of her past and finds an ambiguous peace. A sharply
focused and often humorous account of New Zealand life-a world of
men, Rugby, feminists who feel they've lost their way, Russian
emigres and powerful but disaffected Maori women-The Peastick Girl
is a complex tragi-comedy of manners. Written in prose of eloquent
intensity, this does for New Zealand passions and landscapes the
kind of thing the Brontes did for Yorkshire. Chris Wallace-Crabbe,
The Age Wellington is as central to this novel as Egdon Heath is to
Hardy's Return of the Native... Katherine Mansfield's city has
become a wild place dominated by rain, light, wind and sound. Rod
Edmond, NZ Studies Network (UK) A brave, sensuous and wildly
original novel-I've never read anything quite like it. Helen Garner
Hard not to be blown away by this staggeringly beautiful novel.
Marion May Campbell
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