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Seriality and Texts for Young People

The Compulsion to Repeat

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Editors:
  1. Mavis Reimer

    1. The University of Winnipeg, Canada

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  2. Nyala Ali

    1. The University of Winnipeg, Canada

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  3. Deanna England

    1. The University of Winnipeg, Canada

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  4. Melanie Dennis Unrau

    1. Geez magazine, Canada

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Part of the book series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature (CRACL)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction: The Compulsion to Repeat

    • Mavis Reimer, Nyala Ali, Deanna England, Melanie Dennis Unrau
    Pages 1-33

  3. Off to See the Wizard Again and Again

    • Laurie Langbauer
    Pages 34-56

  4. “Anne repeated”: Taking Anne Out of Order

    • Laura M. Robinson
    Pages 57-73

  5. Kierkegaard’s Repetition and the Reading Pleasures of Repetition in Diana Wynne Jones’s Howl’s Moving Castle Series

    • Rose Lovell-Smith
    Pages 74-94

  6. Harry Potter Fans Discover the Pleasures of Transfiguration

    • Eliza T. Dresang, Kathleen Campana
    Pages 95-110

  7. Girls, Animals, Fear, and the Iterative Force of the National Pack: Reading the Dear Canada Series

    • Charlie Peters
    Pages 111-128

  8. “But what is his country?”: Producing Australian Identity through Repetition in the Victorian School Paper, 1896–1918

    • Michelle J. Smith
    Pages 129-148

  9. Serializing Scholarship: (Re)Producing Girlhood in Atalanta

    • Kristine Moruzi
    Pages 149-165

  10. “I will not / be haunted / by myself!”: Originality, Derivation, and the Hauntology of the Superhero Comic

    • Brandon Christopher
    Pages 166-187

  11. Michael Yahgulanaas’s Red and the Structures of Sequential Art

    • Perry Nodelman
    Pages 188-205

  12. The Beloved That Does Not Bite: Genre, Myth, and Repetition in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

    • Debra Dudek
    Pages 206-217

  13. Roy and the Wimp: The Nature of an Aesthetic of Unfinish

    • Margaret Mackey
    Pages 218-236

  14. MP3 as Contentious Message: When Infinite Repetition Fuses with the Acoustic Sphere

    • Larissa Wodtke
    Pages 237-257

  15. The Little Transgender Mermaid: A Shape-Shifting Tale

    • Nat Hurley
    Pages 258-280

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 281-292
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About this book

Seriality and Texts for Young People is a collection of thirteen scholarly essays about series and serial texts directed to children and youth, each of which begins from the premise that a basic principle of seriality is repetition.

Reviews

“It is a diverse and engaging collection of articles from a wide variety of scholars currently working in the field. … Seriality and Texts explores a virgin territory in the field of children’s cultural studies with enthusiasm and aplomb. It encourages us to reflect on the value of serialised texts and the rewards inherent in re-reading. … collection also succeeds in demonstrating the importance of taking children’s serialised literature seriously, both as a cultural document and as an art form.” (Ben Screech, International Research in Children's Literature, Vol. 9 (1), July, 2016)

Editors and Affiliations

  • The University of Winnipeg, Canada

    Mavis Reimer, Nyala Ali, Deanna England

  • Geez magazine, Canada

    Melanie Dennis Unrau

About the editors

Kathleen Campana, University of Washington, USA Brandon Christopher, University of Winnipeg, Canada Eliza T. Dresang, University of Washington, USA Debra Dudek, University of Wollongong, Australia Nat Hurley, University of Alberta, Canada Laurie Langbauer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Rose Lovell-Smith, University of Auckland, New Zealand Margaret Mackey, University of Alberta, Canada Kristine Moruzi, Deakin University, Australia Perry Nodelman, The University of Winnipeg, Canada Charlie Peters, Independent Scholar, Canada Laura Robinson, Royal Military College of Canada, Canada Michelle J. Smith, Deakin University, Australia Larissa Wodtke, University of Winnipeg, Canada

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