Monthly Archives: April 2009
Finding both place and space in children’s literature
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 … Continue reading
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Philip Pullman is Inside, Outide, Elsewhere at Place and Space
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 … Continue reading
Paper presented on Neil Gaiman at CLYCC
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 … Continue reading
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Dreaming the World
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 … Continue reading