Critical Essay by Tony Watkins
Alan Garner's four novels find the source of their inspiration in non-classical mythology and all contain elements of fantasy….
For Alan Garner there a...
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Critical Essay by Roger Lancelyn Green
[The] technique of the great adventure with spiritual or allegorical undertones breaking through into everyday life has been employed …, with considerabl...
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Critical Essay by Andrew B. Myers
In Alan Garner's story the moon of Gomrath rises over an unmistakably British countryside and over a hidden, ageless underworld of frighteningly evil powers a...
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Critical Essay by Eleanor Cameron
Alan Garner's The Owl Service … reveals that he is not a man to rest on the laurels awarded him by those enthusiastic children who read with pleasure T...
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