Diana Wynne Jones : An Exciting and Exacting

Diana Wynne Jones: An Exciting and Exacting Wisdom is a collection of scholarly essays examining the work of British author Diana Wynne Jones, whose prolific contributions to speculative fiction span the past thirty years. A contemporary of such

Acknowledgments

ix

Introduction

1

(12)

Teya Rosenberg

Nowhere To Go, No One To Be: Diana Wynne Jones and the Concepts of Englishness and Self-Image

13

(12)

Karen Sands-O'Connor

Heterotopia as a Reflection of Postmodern Consciousness in the Works of Diana Wynne Jones

25

(15)

Maria Nikolajeva

Dragons and Quantum Foam: Mythic Archetypes and Modern Physics in Selected Works by Diana Wynne Jones

40

(13)

Karina Hill

Diana Wynne Jones and the World-Shaping Power of Language

53

(13)

Deborah Kaplan

Now Here: Where Now? Magic as Metaphor and as Reality in the Writing of Diana Wynne Jones

66

(13)

Charles Butler

Good and Evil in the Works of Diana Wynne Jones and J. K. Rowling

79

(17)

Sarah Fiona Winters

The Importance of Being Nowhere: Narrative Dimensions and Their Interplay in Fire and Hemlock

96

(12)

Martha P. Hixon

Fire and Hemlock: A Text as a Spellcoat

108

(9)

Akiko Yamazaki

Transformation of Myth in A Tale of Time City

117

(8)

Sharon M. Scapple

Living in Limbo: The Homeward Bounders as a Metaphor for Military Childhood

125

(13)

Donna R. White

The Trials and Tribulations of Two Dogsbodies: A Jungian Reading of Diana Wynne Jones's Dogsbody

138

(11)

Alice Mills

Cats and Aliens in the Unreal City: T. S. Eliot, Diana Wynne Jones, and the Urban Experience

149

(14)

Marilynn S. Olson

Interview with Diana Wynne Jones Conducted

163

(10)

Charles Butler

List of Contributors

173

(4)

Index

177

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