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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Margaret Mahy"”.
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`I had imagined myself into being': storytelling girls in children's fiction from the beginning and end of the twentieth century
… of Silence (1995) and The Tricksters (1986) by Margaret Mahy. All the books are by women writers and all feature unconventional, imaginative girl protagonists who foreground, in their creative interactions with their community and environment, issues of language and voice.I take a broadly …
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Sex, story, and intersubjectivity : Bakhtin, Mahy, and patterns of imaginative acceptance : a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, Massey University, Albany Campus, Aotearoa/New Zealand
Margaret Mahy is a household name in Aotearoa/New Zealand and has achieved a state of prominence and celebration internationally for the consistency and depth of quality of her writing for children and adolescents. Mikhail Bakhtin is finding increasing favour amongst Western literary critics …
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Mother what art thou? : a study of the depiction of mother figures in recent Australian and New Zealand fiction for teenagers
… are The Changeover(First published in 1984) by Margaret Mahy; Greylands (1997) by lsobelle Carmody; Speaking to Miranda (First published in 1990) by Caroline Macdonald: Touching earth lightly (1996) by Margo Lanagan and Closed, Stanger(1999) by Kate De Goldi. In part, the selection of the texts …