For the childlike : George MacDonald's fantasies for children

For the childlike : George MacDonald's fantasies for children / Roderick McGillis, editor.

A collection of essays discussing the work of the nineteenth-century Scottish author best known for his children's fairy tales.

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Other Authors: McGillis, Roderick
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [West Lafayette, Ind.] : Metuchen, N.J. : Children's Literature Association ; Scarecrow Press, c1992.
Subjects:
MacDonald, George, > 1824-1905 > Criticism and interpretation.
Children's stories, Scottish > History and criticism.
Fantasy fiction, Scottish > History and criticism.
Scottish literature > History and criticism.
Children > Books and reading > Scotland.
Fairy tales > History and criticism.
Fairy tales in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Roderick McGillis
  • The two worlds of George MacDonald / Stephen Prickett
  • The fairy tales of George MacDonald and the evolution of a genre / Michael Mendelson
  • The community of the centre: structure and them in Phantastes / Roderick McGillis
  • The goddess in the belfry: grandmothers and wise women in George MacDonalds' books for children / Nancy Willard
  • Social conscience and class relations in MacDonald's "Cross Purposes" / A. Waller Hastings
  • The Golden Key: Milton and MacDonald / Celia Catlett Anderson
  • Reading "The Golden Key": narrative strategies of parable / Cynthia Marshall
  • The Platonic imagery of George MacDonald and C.S. Lewis: the allegory of the cave transfigured / Frank Riga
  • Diamond and Kilmeny: MacDonald, Hogg, and the Scottish folk tradition / William Raeper
  • Language and secret knowledge in At the Back of the North Wind / Roderick McGillis
  • Old wine in new bottles: aspects of prophecy in George MacDonald's At the Back of the North Wind / Lesley Smith
  • Kore motifs in The Princess and the Goblin / Nancy-Lou Patterson
  • The diamond in the ashes: a Jungian reading of the "Princess" books / Joseph Sigman
  • The princess and the wizard: the fantasy worlds of Ursula K. LeGuin and George MacDonald / Cordelia Sherman
  • Duality beyond time: George MacDonald's "The Wise Woman, or The Lost Princess: A Double Story" / Melba N. Battin.

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