In an earlier post, I talked about Philip Pullman’s opening speech of the Place and Space conference held at Keble College. The rest of the conference took place on the Saturday was well worth attending.
Peter Hunt’s opening session at the Place and Space conference reflected Pullman’s opening speech the night before in terms of the [...]
Last weekend was spent at the Place and Space conference at Keble College.
Philip Pullman gave the key note speech, Inside, Outside, Elsewhere, on Friday afternoon where he talked about the notion of the Borderland and reading. He defined the area as one defined by reader and book, a shared area partially created the book’s imagination [...]
I gave a paper recently at the Children’s Literature and Youth Culture Colloquium that Maria Cecire runs at the University of Oxford. It was called Dreaming the World: Mirror worlds in Neil Gaiman’s Coraline and Mirrormask. I’ve attached the paper here in Word format and posted it online here on Yatterings. The conversation afterwards was [...]
In this paper, I am going to look at two of Neil Gaiman’s children’s novels, Coraline and Mirrormask, which use the Alice books as a textual reference.
When Alice wakes up from her dream at the end of Through the Looking Glass, she asks her cat “Now, Kitty, let’s consider who it was that dreamt it [...]