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Lee, Gabriela. "Past Selves, Future Worlds: Folklore and Futurisms in Science Fiction: Filipino Fiction for Young Adults." Comparative Critical Studies 19, no. 3 (October 2022): 417–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ccs.2022.0456.

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Science fiction written specifically for young readers has had difficulty in establishing itself as a separate genre from fantasy, especially since there is a blurred notion of what constitutes fantasy vis-a-vis science fiction in children’s literature. This difficulty is reflected in the stumbling development of children’s and YA science fiction compared to the relatively clear development of children’s and YA fantasy. As such, trying to define what science fiction for young readers is takes on a malleable, inconsistent quality compared to the more established megatexts of science fiction for adult readers. It is through these unstable definitions of science fiction for adolescents that this essay examines how selected stories from the 2016 anthology Science Fiction: Filipino Fiction for Young Adults, the first anthology of Philippine sf writing that caters directly for a young adult audience, negotiate the genre definitions of ‘science fiction’ and ‘young adult’ for a non-Western audience. Studying how these imagined futures represent the experiences of young non-Western readers who have otherwise been excluded from YA science fiction reveals how the genre can widen and expand its parameters.

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Eliphase, Ndayikengurukiye. "Role of Fantasy in Intellectual Development of Children." Shanlax International Journal of English 7, no. 4 (September 1, 2019): 32–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.34293/english.v7i4.583.

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This paper discusses the concept of fantasy. There is much in the word of fiction today so that the number of writers on imagination is increasing. After people have come to realize that romance is serving as much as a sea in the intellectual development of children, most of them have started to encourage their children to like more reading fantasy books. Some parents have even made it a great deal by deciding to build a small home library of fantasy books for children.The paper’s purpose is to discuss the role of fantasy literature in children’s intellectual development by including different forms of fantasy and its various advantages. The latter include creativity, entertainment, imagination and language skills improvement, the schematic knowledge, enjoyment, strategies applied for problem-solving, knowing the do’s and don’ts of the society, etc. Some Critics have made assertions on children’s ways of learning. This paper incorporates some of the claims and discusses them with some excerpts of illustrative stories related to fantasy.Enhanced by the fact that fantasy is the roadmap to the child thinking ability development, the paper will finally show why parents should motivate their children to get interested in fiction, which has a lot to do with children’s learning process.

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Lhamo, Dechen, and S. Chitra. "The Trope of Fantasy in Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories." Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews 10, no. 1 (February 26, 2022): 81–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.18510/hssr.2022.10111.

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Purpose of the study: This study aims to explore how fantasy probes the embedded meanings of creativity and communication. It also seeks to reiterate the role of fantasy and imagination in confronting contemporary issues in real life. Methodology: This study uses an interpretative approach using J.R.R Tolkien's theory of fantasy to analyze the text as an allegory. Through close reading and textual analysis, the text is analysed, relating the events to a personal and political context, which it allegorizes. Online scholarly materials on fantasy and storytelling, collected from various digital sources and libraries were explored to assist in analyzing the role of fantasy in dealing with the contemporary issues in the real world. Main Findings: The study has found that the power of imagination has brought fantasy into existence and fantasy is analyzed as a tool to resist the contemporary issues regarding the freedom of thought and speech in the real life. The study has also found that storytelling brings a union in the community to build an egalitarian society. Applications of the study: This study can be helpful in children’s literature, to prepare the children for their adulthood by equipping them with problem-solving skills and creative skills by empowering their power of imagination. It can also facilitate the children to empower be aware of their the sense of right to information and expression in their life. Novelty/Originality of the study: The study proves the text as fantasy fiction, not just for fun with the supernatural features, but has embedded messages in the symbols and metaphors, revealed through the storytelling technique. Fantasy and creativity draw a link between the imaginary world and the real world as it is an outlet for repressed desires and also a tool to resist the contemporary issues of real-life through creativity.

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Martin, Simon. "A ‘Boy's Own’ boy zone: The making of fascist men in Emilio De Martino's children's sporting novels." Literature & History 26, no. 1 (May 2017): 74–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306197317695081.

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Sports editor of the Corriere della Sera, Emilio De Martino was one of Fascist Italy's most vitriolic sports journalists and prolific authors of sporting fiction. Analysis of his three novels for children published from 1941 to 1943 will consider how his works contributed, first, to the regime's attempt to forge and reinvent both real and imagined traditions through literature, and, second, to Fascism's drive to create a virile, physically and mentally strong youth. Offering a new perspective on Fascism's investment in and exploitation of sport, this article will reveal how a variety of the regime's policies, ideals, myths and goals were propagated and transmitted through fictional stories and adventures. The increasingly radical content and narratives will also show the regime's growing frustration at society's failure to respond to its mobilisation campaigns and increasing desperation following Italy's disastrous entry into the Second World War. Rather than hastening the maturity of young people to create a warrior race ready to risk all for the regime, Fascism's use of ‘Boy's Own’ heroes and fantasy space will be seen to have contributed to the illusion of strength that young Italians could not match and readiness that the regime could not offer.

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Henderson, Antonia, and Marla Anderson. "Pernicious Portrayals: The Impact of Children's Attachment to Animals of Fiction on Animals of Fact." Society & Animals 13, no. 4 (2005): 297–314. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853005774653645.

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AbstractThis paper argues that the lack of distinction between human and nonhuman animals in the fantastic world of children's literature and film results in distorted representations of intelligence, capabilities, and morality of nonhuman animals. From the perspective of attachment theory, the paper shows how humans internalize and sustain misrepresentations throughout adulthood and how these misrepresentations influence relationships with real animals. An ongoing search for the ideal "Walt Disney dog" of childhood jeopardizes relationships to companion animals. Trying to recreate the fantasy dog by genetic manipulation of a real animal's characteristics results in needless distress for companion animals. Because the companion does not meet expectations engendered by childhood stories, normal dog behaviour—chewing, digging, and barking—may result in relinquishing the dog for adoption and subsequent euthanasia. Shifting to the scientific realm, the paper discusses the on-going debate on the study of animals' human-like abilities, most salient in ape language programs. In closing, the paper discusses the disservice done to real animals as illusions of childhood and subsequent misunderstandings leave them judged by impossible, anthrocentric standards—which they rarely can fulfill.

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Yun, Claudia Sangmi. "Canadian Science Fiction for Children and Young Adults: Focusing on Novels from the 1980s." Korean Society for Teaching English Literature 26, no. 3 (December 31, 2022): 135–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.19068/jtel.2022.26.3.05.

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The present study overviews Canadian science fiction for children and young adults in its early history. Canada’s multiculturalism is a great resource for diversity on their literary works, but at the same time, it often turns into concerns on their national identity. Canadian novels portray this unique trait in their stories with three major features. By contrasting the technology-dominated society with the nature-friendly one, they ultimately aim for an idyllic society. Also, the works express distrust of technology and progress with concerns about negative effects on the global environment. Finally, they lie on the blurred border between fantasy adventure and science fiction. Unlike mainstream science fiction novels, Canadian children’s SF writers take the subjects of science, nature, and humans more seriously. Depicting a variety of possible future societies, they continue to emphasize both the harmony of technology and the nature and the exploration of human identity. This originality distinguishes them from other countries’ works and are sufficiently attractive to many young readers.

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Vinczeová, Barbora. "A Journey Beyond Reality: Poetic Prose and Lush Imagery in Tanith Lee’s Night’s Master." Prague Journal of English Studies 5, no. 1 (July 1, 2016): 71–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/pjes-2016-0004.

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Abstract Tanith Lee was a “highly decorated writer” (Chappell 1) whose work ranged from science-fiction, through fantasy and children’s literature to contemporary and detective novels. Although she published more than ninety novels and three hundred short stories, her audience has diminished through the years, affecting also the academic interest in her works. The aims of this article are to provide a literary analysis of one of her most famous novels, Night’s Master, and answer the question of why readers describe her prose as “lush” and “poetic”; and also interpret the recurring symbolism and themes of beauty, sexuality and metamorphosis in the work. This article also highlights the similarities between the novel and fairy tales in regard of numeric symbolism and morals.

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Timofeeva, Y. V. "Children reading of fiction in Siberian and Far Eastern libraries (late XX - early XXI centuries)." Bibliosphere, no. 3 (September 30, 2016): 31–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.20913/1815-3186-2016-3-31-36.

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The article first gives a general view of children reading of fiction in Siberia and the Far East. The relevance of studying children reading is determined by its great social and pedagogical potential. The study objectives are: 1) to identify popular children genres of literature; 2) to recreate the repertoire of favorite authors and their works; 3) to compare the range of reading of Siberian and Far Eastern young people with the reading of their age mates from other regions of the country; 4) to identify main factors forming readers demand of the younger generation. The study has shown that fairy tales, fantasy, detectives, adventures, historic and love stories are the most popular among children. National and foreign writers of the XIX - early XXI centuries are called among the children's favorite authors: A. Barto, M. Bulgakov, A. Volkov, A. Green, A. Dumas, A. Ishimova, A. Lindgren, S. Marshak, A. Milne, N. Nosov, A. Pushkin, M. Reed, M. Twain, L. Charskaya, E. Uspensky and many others. The comparison was made between reading literature by children from Transurals and the European part of Russia. Similarity in the repertoire of reading, favorite genres and authors is proved. Selection of literary works is determined by children personal interests and the curriculum content. Therefore, reading fiction is both leisure and business. Reading fiction on the pupils’ personal choice is usually considered as leisure. Reading literature for educational purposes is related to business. The article pays attention to the difficulty of separating leisure reading from business one when it concerns reading fiction by students. Growing readers’ interest in picturized literary works is marked. This article was written on a wide range of sources and research literature.

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Zheng, Guangjie. "Children’s historical narrative of the early XXI century (based on the story “The Ghost of the Network» by Tamara Kryukova)." Neophilology, no. 26 (2021): 328–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.20310/2587-6953-2021-7-26-328-334.

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In the core of the research is a modern Russian historical narrative for children. On the example of the historical adventure fiction “The Ghost of the Network” written by Tamara Kryukova the work identifies and describes the main characteristics of this type of narrative due to the trends in modern children’s literature, features of modern teenagers’ world perception, changed conditions of social life, etc. The artistic narrative is analyzed in the mainstream of discursiveness due to its open and fluid nature, the cultural and historical nature of the narrative artistic discourse and its inclusion in a wide cultural and discursive context, the polyphonic nature of the stories that form the basis of the narrative discourse of Tamara Kryukova’s children story “The Ghost of the Network”, which covers almost 700 years old and takes the reader to the distant era of Ancient Russia, the main “ingredients” of the historical narrative include the author’s fantasy in the form of a ghost from ancient history, which frightens a scientist who finds himself on a night highway, completely deserted by a mystical coincidence. The leading method is narrative analysis. Thematic and discourse analysis is used as an auxiliary method. In the course of the study, conclusions are drawn. The work reveals the features of a modern children’s historical narrative, combining elements of an adventure-fantasy genre, interweaving the past and the present, history and fiction, taking into account the peculiarities of a modern teenager, living not only in real, but also in virtual space. The enrichment of this story allows the authors to achieve cultural and historical continuity, give the text a semantic dimension, educational meanings, and include modern linguocultural national knowledge in it.

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Sawers, Naarah. "‘You molded me like clay’: David Almond’s Sexualised Monsters." Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature 18, no. 1 (June 1, 2008): 20–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.21153/pecl2008vol18no1art1179.

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Monsters and the Gothic fiction that creates them are therefore technologies, narrative technologies that produce the perfect figure for negative identity. Monsters have to be everything the human is not and, in producing the negative of the human, these novels make way for the invention of human as white, male, middle-class, and heterosexual. (Halberstam, 1995, p.22). Something unusual is happening in some of the most well-regarded, contemporary British children’s fiction. David Almond and Neil Gaiman are investing their stories with a seemingly contemporary feminist agenda, but one that is profoundly troubled by psychoanalytic discourses that disrupt the narratives’ overt excursions into a potentially positive gender re-acculturation of child audiences. Their books often show that girls can be strong and intelligent while boys can be sensitive, but the burgeoning sexual identities of the child protagonists appear to be incompatible with the new wave of gendered equity these stories ostensibly seek. In a recent collaborative essay with two of my colleagues teaching children’s literature at Deakin University, Australia, we considered the postfeminism of ‘other mothers’ and their fraught relationships with daughters in Neil Gaiman’s stories Coraline and The Mirror Mask (forthcoming). While Almond’s Skellig(1998) and Clay (2006) ostensibly tell very different fantastic tales, the differences, on closer inspection, seem only to relate to the gender of the protagonists. Gaiman’s girls and Almond’s boys undertake an identical Oedipal quest for heteronormative success, and in doing so reverse the politically correct bids for gender equality made on their narrative surfaces. When read through a psychoanalytical lens, the narratives also undo all the potential transformations of gendered politics made possible through the authors’ employment of magical realism that could offer manifold ways to disrupt binary oppositions. Indeed, that all four stories rely on the blurring of fantasy and reality might be more telling still about the ambivalence with which feminism is tolerated and/or advanced in a progressive nation like Britain. In such a culture the theoretical premise of equality is acceptable, but strange fantasies emerge in response, and gender difference is rearticulated.

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Chau, Ka-wah Anna. "Imaginary spaces in children's fantasy fiction a psychoanalytic reading of Lewis Carroll's Alice Books and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2004. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31364986.

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Chau, Ka-wah Anna, and 周嘉華. "Imaginary spaces in children's fantasy fiction: a psychoanalytic reading of Lewis Carroll's Alice Booksand Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31364986.

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Davies, Lynda Mary. "Susan Cooper's heightened reality : how narrative style, metaphor, symbol and myth facilitate the imaginative exploration of moral and ethical issues /." St. Lucia, Qld, 2001. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe16530.pdf.

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Dihal, Kanta. "The stories of quantum physics : quantum physics in literature and popular science, 1900-present." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ebe4c5eb-ce48-495f-b015-024f8ac4f4ac.

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This thesis investigates quantum physics narratives for non-physicists, covering four interlocking modes of writing for adults and children, fictional and nonfictional, from 1900 to the present. It brings together three separate scholarly fields: literature and science, science fiction, and science communication. The thesis has revealed parallels between the approaches to quantum physics in these disparate narratives that have not been addressed before, shedding new light on the mutual influences between science and narrative form. The thesis argues that similar narrative tropes have been employed in popular science writing and in fiction across all age groups, changing non-physicists' ideas of quantum physics. This understanding differs significantly from the professional understanding of quantum physics, as I establish by means of a series of case studies, including popular science books for adults by Alastair I.M. Rae, George Gamow and Robert Gilmore; popularizations for children by Lucy and Stephen Hawking, Russell Stannard, and Otto Fong; children's fiction by Philip Pullman and Madeleine L'Engle; and fiction for adults by Greg Egan, David Walton, Blake Crouch, and Iain Pears. An analysis of authors who wrote for various audiences or in multiple genres, such as Fred Hoyle, Stephen Hawking, and Ian Stewart, shows how the same concerns and conflicts surface in a wide range of stories. Quantum physics is not yet fully understood; the Copenhagen, conscious collapse, many-worlds and other interpretations compete for both scientific and public acceptance. Influential physics communicators such as John Gribbin and Brian Cox have written popularizations in which they express a personal preference for one interpretation, arguing against others. Scientific conflict, which tends to be omitted from university teaching, is thus explicitly present in popularizations, making it clear to the reader that quantum physics is in a constant state of flux. I investigate the conflicts between Fred Hoyle and George Gamow, and Stephen Hawking and Leonard Susskind, to see how they undermine the alleged objectivity of science. The interplay between the different stories of quantum physics shows how the science not only shapes the stories: the stories shape the science, too.

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Drolet, Cynthia L. (Cynthia Lea). "Four Stories of Fantasy and Science Fiction." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1988. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500548/.

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This thesis contains four stories of fantasy and science fiction. Four story lengths are represented: the short short ("Dragon Lovers"), the shorter short story ("Homecoming"), the longer short story ("Shadow Mistress"), and the novel ("Sword of Albruch," excerpted here).

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Hirst, Miriam Laufey. "Fantasy and feminism : an intersectional approach to modern children's fantasy fiction." Thesis, University of Bolton, 2018. http://ubir.bolton.ac.uk/1968/.

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This thesis compares modern children’s fantasy literature with older texts, particularly Grimms’ fairy tales. The focus is on tropes from fairy tales and myths that devalue women and femininity. In looking at these tropes, this thesis examines how they are used in modern fiction; whether they are subverted to show a more empowering vision of femininity or simply replicated in a more modern guise. Whereas other approaches in this area have addressed the representation of gender in an isolated fashion, this study adopts an intersectional approach, examining the way that different axes of oppression work together to maintain the patriarchal hegemony of powerful, white, heterosexual men. As intersectional theory has pointed out, mainstream feminism has tended to focus only on the needs and rights of more privileged women, who are themselves complicit in the oppression of their more marginalised “sisters”. Intersectional feminism, in contrast, seeks to dismantle the entire system of interlinked oppressions, rather than allowing some women to benefit from it to the detriment of others. The intersectional issues around feminism that this thesis addresses include race, disability, class, and sexuality. There is also an emphasis on female solidarity, which is championed as an effective strategy to weaken the hold of patriarchy and subvert it in its aim to “divide and conquer”. It is this intersectional approach to children’s fantasy literature that is seen as the thesis’s main contribution to knowledge. The primary texts under examination are mainly from the United Kingdom, but also include works from the United States, Australia, and Germany. All of them were originally published between 1980 and 2013. The thesis explores heroism, beauty, magic, and gender performance in these works, showing how such themes can be dealt with in ways that are either reactionary and detrimental or progressive and empowering.

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Campbell, Nick. "Children's Neo-Romanticism : the archaeological imagination in British post-War children's fantasy." Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2017. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/Children’s-Neo-Romanticism(d8dd7f80-d6a7-4e02-a103-c627adc0fad1).html.

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The focus of this study is a trend in British children’s literature concerning the ancientness of British landscape, with what I argue is a Neo-Romantic sensibility. Neo-Romanticism is marked by highly subjective viewpoints on the countryside, and I argue that it illuminates our understanding of post-war children’s literature, particularly in what is often called its Second Golden Age. Through discussion of four generally overlooked authors, each of importance to this formative publishing era, I aim to explore certain aspects of the Second Golden Age children’s literature establishment. I argue that the trend I critique is characterised by ambiguity, defined by the imaginative practice entailed in the archaeological view.

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Pavlik, Anthony. "A view from elsewhere : the spatiality of children's fantasy fiction." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/1891.

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Fantasy other worlds are often seen as alternatives with which to critique the ‘real’ world, or as offering spaces where child protagonists can take advantage of the otherness they encounter in their own process of maturation. However, such readings of fantasy other worlds, rather than celebrating heterogeneity, implicitly see ‘other’ spaces as ‘unreal’ and there either to support the real in some way, as being in some way inferior to the real, or in need of salvation by protagonists from the real world. This thesis proposes a reading of such texts that draws on social theories of constructed spatiality in order to examine first how, to varying degrees, and depending upon the attitude of authors towards the figure of the child, such ‘fantasy’ places can be seen as potentially real “thirdspaces” of performance and agency for protagonists, and thus as neutral spaces of activity rather than confrontation or growth and, second, how such presentations may be seen as reflecting back into the potential for the spatial activity of readers.

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Holcomb, Will. "The Sunken Country & Other Stories." OpenSIUC, 2020. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2735.

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TITLE: THE SUNKEN COUNTRY & OTHER STORIESMAJOR PROFESSOR: Dr. Rebekah Frumkin The Sunken Country & Other Stories collects five works that place personal tales of alienation, repression, isolation, obsession, and romance and broader themes of dramatic shifts in the workings of culture and environment under a microscope and vivisect them with tools gathered from the New Weird tradition

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Porta, Fernando. "Narrative strategies in H.G. Wells's romances & short stories (1884-1910)." Thesis, University of Reading, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.339482.

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Molson, Francis J. Children's fantasy. San Bernardino, Calif: Borgo Press, 1989.

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Molson, Francis J. Children's fantasy. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, 1989.

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1934-, Jones Diana Wynne, and Lawrie Robin, eds. Fantasy stories. London: Kingfisher Bks., 1994.

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Jones, Diana Wynne. Fantasy stories. New York: Kingfisher, 1994.

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1934-, Jones Diana Wynne, and Lawrie Robin, eds. Fantasy stories. London: Kingfisher, 1995.

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Company, R. R. Bowker, ed. Fiction, folklore, fantasy & poetry for children, 1876-1985. New York: R.R. Bowker, 1986.

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A, Schumacher Julie, and Ofner Terry, eds. Flights of fantasy. Logan, Iowa: Perfection Learning, 2000.

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Jane, Yolen, Greenberg Martin Harry, and Waugh Charles, eds. Spaceships & spells: A collection of new fantasy and science-fiction stories. New York: Harper & Row, 1987.

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Yolen, Jane, and Martin Harry Greenberg. Spaceships & spells: A collection of new fantasy and science-fiction stories. New York: Harper & Row, 1987.

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1920-, Asimov Isaac, Greenberg Martin Harry, and Elmore Larry ill, eds. Visions of fantasy: Tales from the masters. New York: Doubleday, 1989.

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Huang, Yonglin. "Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories." In Narrative of Chinese and Western Popular Fiction, 163–93. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-57575-8_7.

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Filmer-Davies, Kath. "Reconstructing the Present from the Stories of the Past." In Fantasy Fiction and Welsh Myth, 32–44. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24991-6_3.

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Payir, Ayse, and Paul L. Harris. "Children's Ideas about Stories and about Reality." In The Routledge Handbook of Fiction and Belief, 185–95. New York: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003119456-17.

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McLeod, Madison. "Architecture and magic – mapping the London of children's fantasy fiction." In Building Children’s Worlds, 201–18. London: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003131755-15.

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Chudoba, Minna. "Confronting Otherness: The Built Environments in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Shadows of the Apt." In Literary Urban Studies, 299–317. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25855-8_15.

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AbstractConfronting the unfamiliar is a common theme in the fantasy fiction genre. British author Adrian Tchaikovsky underlines this theme in his ten-book series Shadows of the Apt (2008–2014) with a dichotomy of apt–inapt. This is enhanced by the insect-derived traits of the characters, which are reflected in the cities of this imagined fantasy world. Various urban architectures provide backgrounds for the protagonists as they face a foreign reality. The reader interpretation presented here focuses on the urban spaces and the architecture. The reading is structured by a division into strategies and tactics, as defined by Michel de Certeau. This provides a basis for understanding the interaction between the spaces and the spatial practices of the protagonists, as they move about in unfamiliar surroundings, confronting otherness. The architectural reading of the story opens the scalar structure used by the author and underlines the importance of the collective in the individual growth stories.

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Attebery, Brian. "Realism and the Structures of Fantasy." In Fantasy, 25—C2.P89. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192856234.003.0003.

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Abstract When we look at realism through the lens of fantasy rather than as a contrast with it, its constructed nature becomes more evident. The notion of what is realistic changes continually, but it is generally restricted to stories that are not merely possible but probable. What we consider to be realistic narratives are those we recognize from our previous experience of fiction, which also means stories that are in accord with ideological norms. Looking at the work of children’s writers who cross between fantastic and realistic modes, such as Edward Eager and Elizabeth Enright, we see that theirs is a consciously arranged version of realism closely related to their understanding of fantasy. Enright referred to this as “edited reality”; Eager called it “daily magic.”

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Shackleford, Karen E., and Cynthia Vinney. "Story and Life Stage." In Finding Truth in Fiction, 182–215. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190643607.003.0007.

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This chapter provides an overview of how favorite stories impact people and help them learn and grow throughout their lives. The chapter covers how people’s relationships with stories evolve as they grow older. It discusses how story comprehension develops in childhood and the important role parents can play in introducing children to media of all kinds. It also considers how people’s ability to distinguish fantasy from reality in childhood is a product of knowledge acquisition and whether children of different ages can learn from screen stories. Next, it explores how stories can impact tweens and teens and how this group looks to fictional characters as role models. Finally, the chapter explores how stories can help people cope with the trials and tribulations of adulthood, how people’s story preferences evolve as they age, and the way stories can serve as emotional anchors throughout people’s lives.

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"Fantasy fiction." In Language and Control in Children's Literature, 234–71. Routledge, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203419755-12.

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Mallett, Margaret, Prue Goodwin, and David Mallett. "Fantasy stories and novels." In Choosing and Using Fiction and Non-Fiction 3–11, 133–43. Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315144559-11.

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"Multiethnicity, Liminality and Fantasy in Jamila Gavin’s Stories for Young Readers." In Postcolonial Youth in Contemporary British Fiction, 100–123. BRILL, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004464261_007.

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