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Joining the emergent interdisciplinary investment in bridging the
social sciences and the humanities, Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy:
Walking in Other Worlds explores linkages between children's agency
and fantasy. Fantasy as an integral aspect of childhood and as a
genre allows for children's spectacular dreams and hopeful
realities. Friendship, family, identity, loyalty, belongingness,
citizenry, and emotionality are central concepts explored in
chapters that are anchored by humanities texts of television, film,
and literature, but also by social science qualitative methods of
participant observation and interviews. Fantasy has the capacity to
be a revolutionary change agent that in its modernity can
creatively reflect, critique, or reimagine the social, political,
and cultural norms of our world. Such promise is also found to be
true of children's agency, wherein children's beings and becomings,
rooted in childhood's freedoms and constraints, result in a range
of outcomes. In the endeavor to broaden theory and research on
children's agency, fantasy becomes a point of possibility with its
expanding subjectivities, far-reaching terrain, and spirit of
adventure.
Joining the emergent interdisciplinary investment in bridging the
social sciences and the humanities, Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy:
Walking in Other Worlds explores linkages between children's agency
and fantasy. Fantasy as an integral aspect of childhood and as a
genre allows for children's spectacular dreams and hopeful
realities. Friendship, family, identity, loyalty, belongingness,
and emotionality are central concepts explored in chapters that are
anchored by humanities texts of television, film, and literature,
but also by social science qualitative methods of participant
observation and interviews. Fantasy has the capacity to be a
revolutionary change agent that in its modernity can creatively
reflect, critique, or reimagine the social, political, and cultural
norms of our world. Such promise is also found to be true of
children's agency, wherein children's beings and becomings, rooted
in childhood's freedoms and constraints, result in a range of
outcomes. In the endeavor to expand theory and research on
children's agency, fantasy becomes a point of possibility with its
expanding subjectivities, far-reaching terrain, and spirit of
adventure.
BLUE-EYED GIRL is a powerful, compelling family drama telling the
story of a family torn apart by secrets. Anya Keating loves her job
as PA to Macdara Fitzgerald, owner of the stunning Lismore estate
and its string of racehorses. Macdara is an indulgent and generous
employer and Anya has grown very fond of him. But when he rashly
proposes marriage, their friendship - and her position - is
threatened, and Anya is torn between her loyalty to Macdara and her
feelings for his grandson, handsome horse trainer Fergal. Enter
Orla Fitzgerald, Macdara's estranged granddaughter. Orla may have
left Lismore a child, but she has returned a sophisticated and
beautiful woman. So beautiful, in fact, that most of the men are in
thrall to her - and Anya can only watch with growing apprehension
as Orla works her magic on Fergal. But Orla may not be the
blue-eyed girl people take her for. There are dark undercurrents
that run beneath life on the estate. A tragedy lies in Orla's past,
and she is determined to claim her birthright, no matter who stands
in her way.
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RSVP (Paperback)
Tara Moore
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R218
R93
Discovery Miles 930
Save R125 (57%)
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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RSVP is a sumptuous family saga, packed with sex, love and
betrayal. The Granville Midsummer Ball is always an affair to
remember. The who's who of Irish society gather at Carrickcross
House - the rural family estate - for a night of revelry. But this
year's soiree is extra-special: matriarch Honoria is announcing her
grandson Rossa's engagement to Ashling Morrison. Ashling has been
swept off her feet. Tall, dark and handsome, Rossa's the perfect
catch, but is he too good to be true? Why is Honoria so keen to
make Ashling - stepdaughter of her life-long enemy Coppelia - part
of the Granville clan? Can Rossa's brother Carrick hold on to his
position as rightful heir? And will ruthless Coppelia have her way?
With the promise of distinguished company, drinking, dancing and
murder...who could possibly refuse this invitation? Repondez s'il
vous plait.
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