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From:Marvels & Tales (Vol. 20, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed"The Flying Trunk" is a story about the effects of storytelling, and in this respect it resembles many others that appear among Hans Christian Andersen's 156 or more fairy tales. Like other such tales, it juxtaposes the...
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From: Twentieth- Century Children's Writers (4th ed.)Walter de la Mare, though one of the most gifted and original writers of the 20th century, is currently one of the most neglected. His poetry, much admired on its first appearance, has steadily lost ground and is now...
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From: Times Literary SupplementAnne-Cath Vestly's Eight Children in Winter, translated from the Norwegian and the third in a series, is a happy reminder of what a good storyteller can do with the simplest materials, how much can be made out of...
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From: Marvels & Tales[(essay date 2006) In the following essay, Briggs studies Andersen's reception in England and his impact on English authors and literature.] "The Flying Trunk" is a story about the effects of storytelling, and in this...
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From: The Times Literary Supplement[A review of Rose Blanche.] "When wars begin people often cheer. The sadness comes later. The men from the town went off to fight for Germany. Rose Blanche and her mother joined the crowds and waved them goodbye." So...
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From: Night Visitors: The Rise and Fall of the English Ghost Story[(essay date 1977) In the following excerpt, Briggs examines similarities between the fiction of Vernon Lee and Henry James.] When T. S. Eliot's Gerontion declared that he had no ghosts, he rejected his past, both...
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From: Night Visitors: The Rise and Fall of the English Ghost Story[Briggs is an English critic. In the following essay, she examines de la Mare's stories of the supernatural.] The most interesting ghost stories written after the Great War were those of the poet Walter de la Mare....
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From: Night Visitors: The Rise and Fall of the English Ghost Story[Briggs is an English critic. In the following excerpt, she analyzes style and theme in James's ghost stories.] Montague Rhodes James set out his rules for the ghost story, such as they were, in the various brief...
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From: Children and Their Books: A Celebration of the Work of Iona and Peter Opie[(essay date 1989) In the following essay, Lurie presents a contextual overview of Mayne's canon of children's works, calling the author "one of the most gifted contemporary British writers."] Once upon a time...
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From: Children and Their Books: A Celebration of the Works of Iona and Peter Opie[(essay date 1989) In the following essay, Bayley suggests of short stories like "A Recluse" and "Seaton's Aunt" that de la Mare combines the childlike "state of acceptance" with the adult existence in a deliberately...
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From: Popular Children’s Literature in Britain[(essay date 2008) In the following essay, Blamires traces the shifting presentation of d’Aulnoy’s work brought about by changes in the publishing industry and the audience for fairy tales. Blamires focuses on the...
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From: Popular Children's Literature in Britain[(essay date 2008) In the following essay, Simons describes Brazil as being the originator of many of the modern archetypes that exist in girls' school stories.] In a radio programme broadcast in the 1980s on the...