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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465210303321

Autore

Carroll Jane Suzanne

Titolo

Landscape in children's literature / / Jane Suzanne Carroll

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-283-54730-9

9786613859754

1-136-32118-7

0-203-12042-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 p.)

Collana

Children's literature and culture series ; ; Volume 84

Children's literature and culture ; ; 84

Disciplina

823.009/9282

Soggetti

Children's stories, English - History and criticism

Landscapes in literature

Setting (Literature)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-236) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Landscape in Children's Literature; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Sanctuary Topos: Sacred and Domestic Spaces; 2. The Green Topos: Gardens, Farms, Wilderness; 3. The Roadway Topos; 4. The Lapsed Topos: Caves, Graves, and Ruins; 5. Applications; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a new critical methodology for the study of landscapes in children's literature. Treating landscape as the integration of unchanging and irreducible physical elements, or topoi, Carroll identifies and analyses four kinds of space - sacred spaces, green spaces, roadways, and lapsed spaces - that are the component elements of the physical environments of canonical British children's fantasy. Using Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising Sequence as the test-case for this methodology, the book traces the development of the physical features and symbolic functions of lands