Marvels & Tales, July 1st, 2007
Diana Wynne Jones: Children's Literature and the Fantastic Tradition. By Farah Mendlesohn. New York: Routledge, 2005. 240 pp.
Farah Mendlesohn's book is the first thorough study of Diana Wynne Jones's criticism and fantasy fiction for young readers. Mendlesohn's readings are aimed at presenting "not so much what Jones writes about . . . but how she writes about it" (xiii). Such a focus does enable Mendlesohn to avoid the entanglement in the thematic multiplicity of possible interpretations of Jones's works and to reveal instead a far more fascinating dimension of her output as a consistent cr...
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