Magic cloaks and potions: motifs and tropes of invisibility and age-shifting -- Witch power-invisibility, age-shifting and empowerment -- Deconstructing and reconstructing female subjectivity: magic transformation and girls' coming of age -- Discourses of gender, power and desire: invisibility and female gaze -- Crossing borders: queer aging.222 page(s
In recent years, shapeshifting characters in literature, film and television have been on the rise. ...
A diachronic analysis of the way the literary vampire has been characterised from the Victorian era ...
From a very young age, most children are exposed to literature. Whether it is a nightly bedtime stor...
The intersection of age and gender in children’s stories is perhaps most evident in coming-of-age na...
In children's fantasy, invisibility is a popular motif, typically achieved by using different magic ...
Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, Division of Humanities, Department of English, 2007.Bibliography...
The decline of childhood has resulted in the modern child having access to 'adult' knowledge. The su...
This chapter looks at the representational strategies applied to ageing femininities in popular medi...
Capítulo do libro: Brugué, L. y Llompart, A. (eds.) (2020), Contemporary Fairy-Tale Magic. Subvertin...
In this thesis, I identify and analyze mechanisms of patriarchal bias in children’s fantasy literatu...
The witch - a figure drawn into the present from real and imagined pasts - is a remarkably widesprea...
Psychoanalysts Sigmund Freud and C.G. Jung first noted the archetypal symbolism to be found in the d...
This thesis suggests that by reading certain innovative and even metafictional works of fantasy youn...
Children’s literature has conventionally and historically been concerned with identity and the often...
This thesis was submitted for the award of Doctor of Philosophy and was awarded by Brunel University...
In recent years, shapeshifting characters in literature, film and television have been on the rise. ...
A diachronic analysis of the way the literary vampire has been characterised from the Victorian era ...
From a very young age, most children are exposed to literature. Whether it is a nightly bedtime stor...
The intersection of age and gender in children’s stories is perhaps most evident in coming-of-age na...
In children's fantasy, invisibility is a popular motif, typically achieved by using different magic ...
Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, Division of Humanities, Department of English, 2007.Bibliography...
The decline of childhood has resulted in the modern child having access to 'adult' knowledge. The su...
This chapter looks at the representational strategies applied to ageing femininities in popular medi...
Capítulo do libro: Brugué, L. y Llompart, A. (eds.) (2020), Contemporary Fairy-Tale Magic. Subvertin...
In this thesis, I identify and analyze mechanisms of patriarchal bias in children’s fantasy literatu...
The witch - a figure drawn into the present from real and imagined pasts - is a remarkably widesprea...
Psychoanalysts Sigmund Freud and C.G. Jung first noted the archetypal symbolism to be found in the d...
This thesis suggests that by reading certain innovative and even metafictional works of fantasy youn...
Children’s literature has conventionally and historically been concerned with identity and the often...
This thesis was submitted for the award of Doctor of Philosophy and was awarded by Brunel University...
In recent years, shapeshifting characters in literature, film and television have been on the rise. ...
A diachronic analysis of the way the literary vampire has been characterised from the Victorian era ...
From a very young age, most children are exposed to literature. Whether it is a nightly bedtime stor...