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Dedication: To everyone who ever had to grow up.
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Elements of Carnival and the Carnivalesque in Contemporary Australian Children's Literature
Sydney
:
2009
27495428
2009
single work
thesis
'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.'
Source: Abstract.
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Binding Friendships and the Discovery of Death
1988
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review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 20 August 1988; (p. 6)
— Review of Blue Days 1986 single work novel -
Untitled
1987
single work
review
— Appears in: LiNQ , vol. 15 no. 1 1987; (p. 104-106)
— Review of The Other Side of the Family 1986 single work novel ; Blue Days 1986 single work novel ; The Sky Between the Trees 1986 single work novel -
Untitled
1987
single work
review
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , January vol. 2 no. 1 1987; (p. 14)
— Review of Blue Days 1986 single work novel ; The Other Side of the Family 1986 single work novel ; The Sky Between the Trees 1986 single work novel -
Untitled
1987
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 2 no. 2 1987; (p. 26)
— Review of The Other Side of the Family 1986 single work novel ; Blue Days 1986 single work novel ; The Sky Between the Trees 1986 single work novel
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Untitled
1987
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 2 no. 2 1987; (p. 26)
— Review of The Other Side of the Family 1986 single work novel ; Blue Days 1986 single work novel ; The Sky Between the Trees 1986 single work novel -
Untitled
1987
single work
review
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Review , January vol. 2 no. 1 1987; (p. 14)
— Review of Blue Days 1986 single work novel ; The Other Side of the Family 1986 single work novel ; The Sky Between the Trees 1986 single work novel -
Untitled
1987
single work
review
— Appears in: LiNQ , vol. 15 no. 1 1987; (p. 104-106)
— Review of The Other Side of the Family 1986 single work novel ; Blue Days 1986 single work novel ; The Sky Between the Trees 1986 single work novel -
Binding Friendships and the Discovery of Death
1988
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 20 August 1988; (p. 6)
— Review of Blue Days 1986 single work novel -
Australian Children's Book Awards : The 1987 shortlist
1987
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 91 1987; (p. 29-32)
— Review of Riverman 1986 single work novel ; Creatures in the Beard 1986 single work picture book ; Kojuro and the Bears Helen Smith (translator), 1987 single work picture book ; The Wild 1986 single work picture book ; All About Anna and Harriet and Christopher and Me 1986 single work children's fiction ; Melissa's Ghost 1986 single work children's fiction ; Blue Days 1986 single work novel ; Space Demons 1986 single work novel ; Taronga 1986 single work novel ; My Sister Sif 1986 single work novel ; All We Know 1986 single work children's fiction ; Animalia 1986 single work picture book ; Farmer Schulz's Ducks 1986 single work picture book ; Pigs Might Fly 1986 single work children's fiction ; Sister Madge's Book of Nuns 1986 selected work poetry ; Boss of the Pool 1986 single work children's fiction ; Murgatroyd's Garden 1986 single work picture book ; The Nativity 1986 single work picture book -
The Children's Book Council Book of the Year Awards 1987 : The Short Lists
1987
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column
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 2 no. 2 1987; (p. 12-13) -
y
Elements of Carnival and the Carnivalesque in Contemporary Australian Children's Literature
Sydney
:
2009
27495428
2009
single work
thesis
'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.'
Source: Abstract.