Margaret Atwood's textual assassinations : recent poetry and fiction

Acknowledgement -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction / Murder in the dark : Margaret Atwood's inverse poetics of intertextual minuteness / Fiction flashes : genre and intertexts in Good bones / Strange visions : Atwood's Interlunar and technopoetics / (Dis)unified field theories : the Clarendon lectures seen through (a) Cat's eye / Strangers within the gates : Margaret Atwood's Wilderness tips / robber bride; or, who is a true Canadian? / Humanizing the fox : Atwood's poetic tricksters and Morning in the burned house / Quilting as narrative art : metafictional construction in Alias Grace / left-handed story : The blind assassin / Talking back to Bluebeard : Atwood's fictional storytellers / Works cited -- Notes on contributors -- Index.

The Best American science fiction and fantasy 2015

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Best American series.

Foreword -- Introduction: launching rockets -- How to get back to the forest / Help me follow my sister into the Land of the Dead / Tortoiseshell cats are not refundable / The bad graft / A guide to the fruits of Hawai'i / Each to each / Orges of East Africa / Cimmeria: from the Journal of Imaginary Anthropology / Sleeper / How the marquis got his coat back / Windows / The thing about shapes to come / We are the cloud / The blue afternoon that lasted forever / Skullpocket / I can see right through you / The empties / The one they took before / The relieve box / How to become a robot in 12 easy steps / Contributor's notes -- Other notable science fiction and fantasy stories of 2014.

Canada's game : hockey and identity

Introduction: Canada's game? Hockey and the problem of identity / Community, region, nation: hockey and the contexts of identity -- Big liners and beer gardens: the Port Arthur Bear Cats, Shamateurism, and the selection controversy surrounding Canada's 1936 Olympic Hockey Team / Are American's really hockey villains? A new perspective on the American influence on Canada's national game / Confronting a compelling other: the summit series and the nostalgic (trans)formation of Canadian identity / Forging identity through fiction -- "Just part of the game": depictions of violence in hockey prose / Win Orr lose: searching for the good Canadian kid in Canadian hockey fiction / The mystery of a Canadian father of hockey stories: Leslie McFarlane's break away from the Hardy Boys / Buying and selling identities: hockey as commodity -- "There's more people here tonight than at a first night of the metropolitan": professional hockey spectatorship in the 1920s and 1930s in New York and Toronto / Between a puck and a showpiece: spectator sport and the differing responses to hockey (and its absence) in Canada and the United States -- a Canadian poet looks at the fate of the game / Forever proud? The Montreal Canadiens' transition from the forum to the Molson Centre / Manufacturing players and controlling sports: an interpretation of the political economy of hockey and the 2004 NHL lockout

The Oxford handbook of children's literature

Oxford handbooks

Oxford handbooks.

fundamentals of children's literature criticism : Alice's adventures in Wonderland and Through the looking-glass / Randall Jarrell's The bat-poet : poets, children, and readers in an age of prose / Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad together as a primer for critical literacy / Blending genres and crossing audiences : Harry Potter and the future of literary fiction / Wanda's wonderland : Wanda Gág and her Millions of cats / cross-written Harlem Renaissance : Langston Hughes's The dream keeper / Dumbo, Disney, and difference : Walt Disney Productions and film as children's literature / Redrawing the comic-strip child : Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts as cross-writing / cat in the hippie : Dr. Seuss, nonsense, the carnivalesque, and the sixties rebel / Wild things and wolf dreams : Maurice Sendak, picture-book psychologist / Reimagining the monkey king in comics : Gene Luen Yang's American born Chinese / Froggy's little brother : nineteenth-century evangelical writing for children and the politics of poverty / History in fiction : contextualization as interpretation in Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped / Tom Sawyer, audience, and American Indians / Living with the Kings : class, taste, and family formation in Five little peppers and how they grew / daughter of the house : discourses of adoption in L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables / Where in America are you, God? : Judy Blume, Margaret Simon, and American national identity / Let freedom ring : land, liberty, literacy, and lore in Mildred Taylor's Logan family novels / "What are young people to think?" : the subject of immigration and the immigrant subject in Francisco Jiménez's The circuit / "My book and heart shall never part" : reading, printing, and circulation in the New England Primer / Castaways : the Swiss Family Robinson, child bookmakers, and the possibilities of literary flotsam / Tom Brown and the schoolboy crush : boyhood desire, hero worship, and the boys' school story / Peter Pan as children's theater : the issue of audience / Jade and the tomboy tradition / Happily ever after : Free to be...you and me, second-wave feminism, and 1970s American children's culture / Paradise refigured : innocence and experience in His dark materials

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