- 248 pages
- English
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About this book
This edited volume reviews the long career of Russell Hoban, an American writer residing in England who writes for children and adults. The Forty Years in the title refers to the length of Hoban's career to date. Hoban's contribution specifically to children's literature is commemorated in this volume of essays by international scholars,
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Series Editorâs Foreword
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- List of Illustrations
- Hobanâs Street Performers
- Monsters, Machines, and the Place of Chocolate Cake: Hobanâs Picture Books
- An Epistemology for Frances
- Questions of âWhatâ and âWhere,â and Contexts of âMeaningâ for The Mouse and His Child in the Late Twentieth Century
- Toward Linearity: A Narrative Reading of The Mouse and His Child
- Spring and Fall to a Young (Mouse) Child: A Blakean Reading of The Mouse and His Child
- Mice-en-Scene: A Comparative Study of the Novel and the Animated Feature Film The Mouse and His Child
- From the Temple of Solomon to Zionist Ironies: What The Mouse and His Child Is Also About
- The Ponders; or Much-in-Little: Some Recurring Aspects of the Work of Russell Hoban
- Thoughts on Two Hoban Poems, Some Picture Books, and a Few Obsessions
- Russell Hoban as Seen from Germany
- Post-Mouse, Postmodernist, Hoban, and the fin de siècle Culture of Childhood
- The Way of The Trokeville Way
- Works by Russell Hoban
- Contributors
- Index