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This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it has a Japanese translation.
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- Also braille and sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Elements of Carnival and the Carnivalesque in Contemporary Australian Children's Literature
Sydney
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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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Patricia Wrightson : 'Spirits in Their Own Land'
1997
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Adolescent Novel : Australian Perspectives 1997; (p. 227-235) -
Patricia Wrightson's 'Wirrun': A Modern Aboriginal Mythic Hero
1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature , December vol. 1 no. 3 1990; (p. 140-144) -
Children's Adult
1989
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 29 August 1989; (p. 113) -
Untitled
1982
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , October no. 85 1982; (p. 48-49)
— Review of Behind the Wind 1981 single work novel
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Untitled
1981
single work
review
— Appears in: The Junior Bookshelf , October vol. 45 no. 5 1981; (p. 221)
— Review of Behind the Wind 1981 single work novel -
Untitled
1982
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , October no. 85 1982; (p. 48-49)
— Review of Behind the Wind 1981 single work novel -
Children's Adult
1989
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 29 August 1989; (p. 113) -
Patricia Wrightson : 'Spirits in Their Own Land'
1997
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Adolescent Novel : Australian Perspectives 1997; (p. 227-235) -
Patricia Wrightson's 'Wirrun': A Modern Aboriginal Mythic Hero
1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature , December vol. 1 no. 3 1990; (p. 140-144) -
Children's Book Council of Australia Judges' Report, 1982
1982
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , July no. 84 1982; (p. 7-11) -
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.
Awards
- 1982 shortlisted Ditmar Awards — Best Novel
- 1982 highly commended CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Book of the Year Award
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