Dimensions of Madeleine L'Engle

New Critical Approaches

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2017
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
9781476664354 (ISBN)

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Best known for her Newbery Medal-winning novel A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) had a long and successful writing career. Her books enjoyed popular acclaim and she was in constant demand to give speeches, write forewords and advise and encourage younger authors. Yet her work--particularly her adult fiction--has been largely ignored by scholars. This collection of new essays gives overdue critical attention to L'Engle's complete body of work, from her familiar young adult fiction to her religious writings, poems and short stories.

Suzanne Bray is a professor of British literature and civilization at Lille Catholic University in the north of France. She specializes in the history of religious ideas and their place in popular culture in the 20th century. She has published extensively in French and English on various Christian authors including C.S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, Charles Williams and Madeleine L’Engle.

Table of Contents

Preface

New Directions in L’Engle Studies? (Suzanne Bray)

A Scientific Girl and Two Intuitive Boys: The Unconventional

Protagonists of A Wrinkle in Time (Anne-Frédérique Mochel-Caballero)

Thinking, Doing and Delaying Insemination in Madeleine L’Engle’s Many Waters (Chantel Lavoie)

Narration of the Poet as a Young Woman: Intertextuality, Genre and World-Building in L’Engle’s Austin Family Novels (Carol S. Franko)

What Madeleine Inherited from Her “Grandfather George”: The Influence of George MacDonald on Madeleine L’Engle in Her Children’s Fantasy Books (Sophie Dillinger)

Madeleine L’Engle: An Anti-Romantic Romantic? (Gregory G. Pepetone)

Discarded Image and Expanding Universe: The (Meta)physics of C.S. Lewis and Madeleine L’Engle (Naomi Wood)

A Problematic Sense of Place: Madeleine L’Engle’s “White in the Moon the Long Road Lies” (Gérald Préher)

Of God and Women: The Evolution of Theology in L’Engle’s Biblical Reimaginings (Emily Louise Zimbrick-Rogers)

“And what should I do in Illyria?”: Discovering the American South and Its Gods in Madeleine L’Engle’s The Other Side of the Sun (Suzanne Bray)

Selected Works

About the Contributors

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.01.2017
Zusatzinfo	notes, bibliographies, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	286 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-13	9781476664354 / 9781476664354
Zustand	Neuware