Seriality and Texts for Young People: the Compulsion to Repeat - Critical Approaches to Children's Literature

Marc Notes: '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. Biographical Note: Mavis Reimer is the Canada Research Chair in Young People's Texts and Cultures and the Dean of Graduate Studies at the University of Winnipeg, Canada. She is the co-author, with Perry Nodelman, of The Pleasures of Children's Literature (3rd ed.), and lead editor of the scholarly journal Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures. Nyala Ali holds an M. A. in Cultural Studies from the University of Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada. She has been published in Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA-PGN. Deanna England graduated with an honours degree in Psychology in 1998 and her Master's degree in Cultural Studies in 2012. She is a Graduate Studies Officer at The University of Winnipeg, Canada, and a regular contributor to the University of Venus, a blog featured on the Inside Higher Education website. Melanie Dennis Unrau is a former editor of Geez magazine. Her first full poetry collection, Happiness Threads: The Unborn Poems, was published by The Muses' Company in 2013. Her academic work has been published in the Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement. She is a doctoral student in English at the University of Manitoba, Canada. Table of Contents: Introduction: The Compulsion to Repeat; Mavis Reimer, Nyala Ali, Deanna England, and Melanie Dennis Unrau1. Off to See the Wizard Again and Again; Laurie Langbauer2.'Anne repeated': Taking Anne Out of Order; Laura M. Robinson3. Kierkegaard's Repetition and the Reading Pleasures of Repetition in Diana Wynne Jones's Howl's Moving Castle Series; Rose Lovell-Smith4. Harry Potter Fans Discover the Pleasures of Transfiguration; Eliza T. Dresang and Kathleen Campana5. Girls, Animals, Fear, and the Iterative Force of the National Pack: Reading the Dear Canada Series; Charlie Peters6.'But what is his country?': Producing Australian Identity through Repetition in the Victorian School Paper, 1896-1918; Michelle J. Smith7. Serializing Scholarship: (Re) Producing Girlhood in Atalanta; Kristine Moruzi8.'I will not / be haunted / by myself!': Originality, Derivation, and the Hauntology of the Superhero Comic; Brandon Christopher9. Michael Yahgulanaas's Red and the Structures of Sequential Art; Perry Nodelman10. The Beloved That Does Not Bite: Genre, Myth, and Repetition in Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Debra Dudek11. Roy and the Wimp: The Nature of an Aesthetic of Unfinish; Margaret Mackey12. MP3 as Contentious Message: When Infinite Repetition Fuses with the Acoustic Sphere; Larissa Wodtke13. The Little Transgender Mermaid: A Shape-Shifting Tale; Nat HurleyIndex

Contributor Bio:  Reimer, Mavis Mavis Reimer is Canada Research Chair in the Culture of Childhood, director of the Centre for Research in Young People's Texts and Cultures, and an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Winnipeg. She is co-author with Perry Nodelman of the third edition of "The Pleasures of Children's Literature" and editor of a collection of essays on "Anne of Green Gables", entitled "Such a Simple Little Tale". Contributor Bio:  Dennis Unrau, Melanie Melanie Dennis Unrau is Editor and co-Publisher of Geez magazine. Once a writer of long posts late at night, she now prefers to make art with a group of visual artist mothers who meet in person in Winnipeg. Her writing has appeared in magazines and art shows, and in Exposed, an anthology of emerging Manitoba writers (The Muses' Company, 2002). This is her first collection.