Seriality and Texts for Young People The Compulsion to Repeat [Hardcover]

Seriality and Texts for Young People is a collection of thirteen scholarly essays about series and serial texts directed to children and youth, each of which begins from the premise that a basic principle of seriality is repetition.Introduction: The Compulsion to Repeat; Mavis Reimer, Nyala Ali, Deanna England, and Melanie Dennis Unrau 1. Off to See the Wizard Again and Again; Laurie Langbauer 2. 'Anne repeated': Taking Anne Out of Order; Laura M. Robinson 3. Kierkegaard's Repetition and the Reading Pleasures of Repetition in Diana Wynne Jones's Howl's Moving Castle Series; Rose Lovell-Smith 4. Harry Potter Fans Discover the Pleasures of Transfiguration; Eliza T. Dresang and Kathleen Campana 5. Girls, Animals, Fear, and the Iterative Force of the National Pack: Reading the Dear Canada Series; Charlie Peters 6. 'But what is his country?': Producing Australian Identity through Repetition in the Victorian School Paper, 1896-1918; Michelle J. Smith 7. Serializing Scholarship: (Re)Producing Girlhood in Atalanta; Kristine Moruzi 8. 'I will not / be haunted / by myself!': Originality, Derivation, and the Hauntology of the Superhero Comic; Brandon Christopher 9. Michael Yahgulanaas's Red and the Structures of Sequential Art; Perry Nodelman 10. The Beloved That Does Not Bite: Genre, Myth, and Repetition in Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Debra Dudek 11. Roy and the Wimp: The Nature of an Aesthetic of Unfinish; Margaret Mackey 12. MP3 as Contentious Message: When Infinite Repetition Fuses with the Acoustic Sphere; Larissa Wodtke 13. The Little Transgender Mermaid: A Shape-Shifting Tale; Nat Hurley IndexIt is a diverse and engaging collection of articles from a wide variety of scholars currently working in the field. & Seriality and Texts explores a virgin territory in the field of childrens cultural studies with enthusiasm and aplomb. It encourages us to reflect on the value of serialised texts and the rewards inherent in re-reading. & collection also succeeds in demonstrating thlók