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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798782703321

Titolo

Maurice Gee : a literary companion : the fiction for young readers / / edited by Elizabeth Hale

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Dunedin, New Zealand] : , : Otago, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-927322-90-1

1-927322-89-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Disciplina

823.914

Soggetti

New Zealand literature - 20th century

Authors, New Zealand - 20th century

New Zealand Literary collections

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Half Title; Copyright; Contents; Editors' note to the series - Lawrence Jones and Elizabeth Hale; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Gee's novels for young readers - Elizabeth Hale; 1: The early fantasy novels: 'a kind of perturbation, held within the pages' - Claudia Marquis; 2: The good, the bad - and ironic reversals: Moralscape in Gee's realist historical quintet for young readers - Diane Hebley; 3: Mining Gee: Salt, Gool and The Limping Man - Elizabeth Hale

4: 'What I must steer clear of': The influence of his mother's stories on Maurice Gee - Kathryn Walls5: Writing horizontally and vertically in The World Around the Corner and Hostel Girl - Louise Clark; 6: Patterns of exchange: Setting, hero, villain and child inThe Champion and The Fat Man - Vivien van Rij; 7: Representation and responsibility in Under the Mountain and The Fat Man - Elizabeth Hale; Notes; Contributors; Bibliography; Index