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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Fantasy writing"”.
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Fantasy, morality and ideology: a comparative study of C.S.Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials
… The discussion then investigates the nature of fantasy writing and the ways in which alternative worlds are used in The Chronicles of Narnia and His Dark Materials. C.S. Lewis and Philip Pullman use alternative world to very different ends, one to escape the present world and the other to deal …
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Entering the Contact Zone: Encountering the Animal in Children's Fantasy Fiction and Film
… contact zone within the framework of children’s fantasy literature and film. It is conducted at the intersection where children’s literature, philosophy, posthumanism and animal studies meet. The term ‘contact zone’ describes the act of two entities moving into a physical space where their world …
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Recasting the social critic : social commentary in selected novels of Charles Dickens and Terry Pratchett
… in novels also change. Terry Pratchett's fantasy writing has been noted by various reviewers and critics to also contain similar elements of social criticism, with some going as far as to call him a "Dickens of the 20th century". This dissertation critically explores the claim that …
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There and Back Again: Tolkien's Epic Writing and Revising Process Informs Composition Theory
In an attempt to better understand writing as process, this thesis blends textual genetics with observations from the holograph manuscripts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s first chapter of The Lord of the Rings. Tracking his revisions demonstrates complex revision techniques that can inform composition …