Peter Pan's Shadows in the Literary Imagination (Children's by Kirsten Stirling PDF

By Kirsten Stirling

ISBN-10: 0415888646

ISBN-13: 9780415888646

ISBN-10: 1138849693

ISBN-13: 9781138849693

This e-book is a literary research of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan in all its various types -- key rewritings, dramatisations, prequels, and sequels -- and incorporates a synthesis of the most severe interpretations of the textual content over its historical past. A entire and clever learn of the Peter Pan phenomenon, this examine discusses the book’s advanced textual historical past, exploring its origins within the Harlequinade theatrical culture and British pantomime within the 19th century. Stirling investigates capability textual and extra-textual resources for Peter Pan, the serious tendency to hunt assets in Barrie’s personal biography, and the proliferation of prequels and sequels aiming to provide an explanation for, contextualize, or shut off, Barrie’s exploration of the mind's eye. The assets thought of contain Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson’s Starcatchers trilogy, Régis Loisel’s six-part Peter Pan photograph novel in French (1990-2004), Andrew Birkin’s The misplaced Boys sequence, the movies Hook (1991), Peter Pan (2003) and Finding Neverland (2004), and Geraldine McCaughrean’s "official sequel" Peter Pan in Scarlet (2006), between others.

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