Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Portal fantasy"”.
-
Monstrum
Monstrum is a portal fantasy novel and is the first in a series of books dealing with the relations between our primary world and a secondary world, where many beings from mythology fled thousands of years ago due to human pressures. In the absence of humans they have prospered, created a highly …
-
The many worlds of Liz Jordan
… The Many Worlds of Liz Jordan, is an urban-portal fantasy about authors who travel to secondary worlds , experience stories 1 first-hand, and only then write them up as “fiction.” The work is influenced by a number of writers, such as Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, and James Riley. Terry …
-
Representations of Dyslexia Across Genres in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
… school story, detective fiction, and fantasy are commonly used as narrative tactics to reaffirm the social norms complicit in disabling dyslexics – reflecting pervasive deficit models of disability rather than troubling how normative literacy practices continue to Other dyslexics. This …
-
The Island of Last Hope + Time-play with purpose: minoritised stories in contemporary children's time-slip literature
This thesis consists of a children's novel, 'The Island of Last Hope', followed by a critical commentary, 'Time-play with purpose: minoritised stories in contemporary children's time-slip literature'. The commentary offers a new approach to ‘time-play’ fiction for children, demonstrating how …
-
The Island of Last Hope + Time-play with purpose: minoritised stories in contemporary children's time-slip literature
This thesis consists of a children's novel, 'The Island of Last Hope', followed by a critical commentary, 'Time-play with purpose: minoritised stories in contemporary children's time-slip literature'. The commentary offers a new approach to ‘time-play’ fiction for children, demonstrating how …