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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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Second Look
2005
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 3 April 2005; (p. 33) -
Questions Teenagers Asked Margo Lanagan and Sonya Hartnett
Annette Dale Meiklejohn
(interviewer),
1998
single work
interview
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 13 no. 2 1998; (p. 12-15) -
Untitled
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 12 no. 3 1997; (p. 37)
— Review of Princes 1997 single work novel -
Untitled
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 41 no. 3 1997; (p. 32)
— Review of Princes 1997 single work novel
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Untitled
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 41 no. 3 1997; (p. 32)
— Review of Princes 1997 single work novel -
Untitled
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 12 no. 3 1997; (p. 37)
— Review of Princes 1997 single work novel -
Obsessions
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 192 1997; (p. 57-58)
— Review of Princes 1997 single work novel -
A Complex Struggle in Hartnett's New Novel
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 13 September 1997; (p. C11)
— Review of Princes 1997 single work novel -
'Princes' by Sonya Hartnett
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Spring vol. 5 no. 3 1997; (p. 18-19)
— Review of Princes 1997 single work novel -
Second Look
2005
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 3 April 2005; (p. 33) -
Questions Teenagers Asked Margo Lanagan and Sonya Hartnett
Annette Dale Meiklejohn
(interviewer),
1998
single work
interview
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 13 no. 2 1998; (p. 12-15) -
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.