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Pagan Themes in Modern Children's Fiction

Green Man, Shamanism, Earth Mysteries

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  • © 2009

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  1. Peter Bramwell
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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Peter Bramwell
    Pages 1-2

  3. Locating Paganism

    • Peter Bramwell
    Pages 3-37

  4. Herne the Hunter and the Green Man

    • Peter Bramwell
    Pages 38-83

  5. Shamanism and the Pull of the North

    • Peter Bramwell
    Pages 84-144

  6. Prehistoric Monuments, Witchcraft and Environmentalism

    • Peter Bramwell
    Pages 145-190

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 191-224
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About this book

Applying a range of critical approaches to works by authors including Susan Cooper, Catherine Fisher, Geraldine McCaughrean, Anthony Horowitz and Philip Pullman, this book looks at the formative and interrogative relationship between recent children's literature and fashionable but controversial aspects of modern Paganism.

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'...It's wide-ranging, but there's a critical intelligence with regard both to the literature and to paganism in its various forms...' - Dr Charles Butler

'Peter Bramwell's final sentence is perhaps the best way to begin this review: 'A creatively critical dialogue between [modern Paganism and children's fiction] is what this book has observed and perhaps, I hope, extended' (190). Pagan Themes in Modern Children's Fiction succeeds in initiating a dialogue well worth extending beyond these pages, both for Pagan Studies and children's-literature scholars.' - Dawn Comer, The Pomegranate: An International Journal of Pagan Studies

About the author

PETER BRAMWELL lectures for the Open University and the University of Sunderland, UK. Since gaining an MA in Children's Literature from Roehampton University he has continued to research in this area, and has contributed to Modern Children's Literature: An Introduction (edited by Kim Reynolds) and The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature (edited by Jack Zipes).

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