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'This thesis discusses the influence of elements of Bakhtinian camivalesque in selected contemporary Australian children’s literature. Many of the Bakhtinian ideas are centred on the work of Franqois Rabelais, particularly his five books collectively entitled Gargantua and Pantagruel. Aspects of the complex field of Bakhtinian camivalesque that have been considered include: attitudes to authority, the grotesque body and its working, the importance of feasting and the associated concepts of bodily functioning, customs in relation to food, and ritual and specific language such as the use of curses and oaths. The role of humour and the manifest forms this takes within carnival are intrinsic and are discussed at some length. These central tenets are explored in two ways: first, in relation to their connection and use within the narrative structures of a selection of books short listed (and thus critically acclaimed) by the Australian Children’s Book Council from the early 1980s to the early 2000s, and second, by means of contrast, to the commercially popular but generally less critically acclaimed works of other Australian writers such as Paul Jennings and Andy Griffiths. The thesis concludes by considering the ways in which camivalesque freedom is encouraged through and by new media.'
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Ph.D. disstertation.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
- The True Story of Lilli Stubeck 1984 single work novel
- Obernewtyn 1987 single work novel
- Closer to the Stars 1981 single work children's fiction
- Wait For Me! Wait For Me! 1981 single work children's fiction
- Worry Warts 1991 single work children's fiction
- Bumageddon : The Final Pongflict 2005 single work children's fiction
- Zombie Bums from Uranus 2003 single work children's fiction
- The Day My Bum Went Psycho 2001 single work children's fiction
- Forest 2001 single work novel
- Princes 1997 single work novel
- Sleeping Dogs 1995 single work novel
- Unmentionable! : More Amazing Stories 1991 selected work children's fiction
- Round the Twist 1990 selected work children's fiction
- Unbelievable! : More Surprising Stories 1986 selected work children's fiction
- Taronga 1986 single work novel
- Master of the Grove 1982 single work novel
- Came Back to Show You I Could Fly 1989 single work novel
- Hating Alison Ashley 1984 single work novel
- Toby's Millions 1982 single work children's fiction
- Deepwater 1987 single work novel
- Playing Beatie Bow 1980 single work novel
- A Tide Flowing 1981 single work children's fiction
- Space Demons 1986 single work novel
- Shadows among the Leaves 1984 single work children's fiction
- Blue Days 1986 single work novel
- The Left Overs 1982 single work children's fiction
- Firestorm! 1985 single work novel
- Dancing in the Anzac Deli 1984 single work children's fiction
- A Little Fear 1983 single work children's fiction
- Behind the Wind 1981 single work novel