Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1353/uni.2023.a903116
KaaVonia Hinton
What truly stood out to me with Mothers and Murderers is its utility as a reference book as well as a well-argued analysis about age-related power relationships in YA dystopian literature. With literature reviews, structured charts that highlight the killer and mother motifs, sections on ideological takeaways related to these motifs, and clear teaching ideas, this book offers a wealth of tools to the scholar and teacher of YA dystopias. Regarding the lesson ideas, Alkestrand notes that “it is possible to use the same or similar tasks for other YA dystopian works” (238), emphasizing the transferability of these prompts. With its exemplary organization and thorough coverage of YA dystopian literature, Mothers and Murderers is a wonderful addition to the corpus of scholarship on this popular genre.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1353/uni.2022.a899305
Joanne H. Yi
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1353/uni.2022.a899302
Melissa Lenos
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1353/uni.2022.a899303
Dawn Sardella-Ayres
do children’s films specifically have a duty to be instructive, or somehow “morally” educational? Meeusen notes the potential “usefulness” of the texts foregrounding negative consequences to “bad behavior,” suggesting a cultural expectation of a level of didacticism. The extended range aside, this is a strong contribution to the conversation surrounding evaluative practices specific to children’s and YA adaptations, both of which remain relatively underrepresented in our scholarship.
{"title":"Transforming Girls: The Work of Nineteenth-Century Adolescence by Julie Pfeiffer (review)","authors":"Dawn Sardella-Ayres","doi":"10.1353/uni.2022.a899303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/uni.2022.a899303","url":null,"abstract":"do children’s films specifically have a duty to be instructive, or somehow “morally” educational? Meeusen notes the potential “usefulness” of the texts foregrounding negative consequences to “bad behavior,” suggesting a cultural expectation of a level of didacticism. The extended range aside, this is a strong contribution to the conversation surrounding evaluative practices specific to children’s and YA adaptations, both of which remain relatively underrepresented in our scholarship.","PeriodicalId":43426,"journal":{"name":"LION AND THE UNICORN","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44845296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1353/uni.2022.a899301
Amy Fish, Krystal Howard, Carol-Ann Hoyte
{"title":"“mouth full & dripping with language”: The 2022 Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry","authors":"Amy Fish, Krystal Howard, Carol-Ann Hoyte","doi":"10.1353/uni.2022.a899301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/uni.2022.a899301","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43426,"journal":{"name":"LION AND THE UNICORN","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45620972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1353/uni.2022.a899304
Alexandra Garner
{"title":"Beowulf as Children’s Literature ed. by Bruce Gilchrist and Britt Mize (review)","authors":"Alexandra Garner","doi":"10.1353/uni.2022.a899304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/uni.2022.a899304","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43426,"journal":{"name":"LION AND THE UNICORN","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46443673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1353/uni.2022.a899300
Chen-Wei Yu
{"title":"Psychoanalytic Transference and Redemption in Anne Fine’s The Tulip Touch and Anne Cassidy’s Jennifer Jones Novels","authors":"Chen-Wei Yu","doi":"10.1353/uni.2022.a899300","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/uni.2022.a899300","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43426,"journal":{"name":"LION AND THE UNICORN","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42172922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1353/uni.2022.a899299
Mary-Anne Potter, Deirdre Byrne
{"title":"Why Do Trees Need Herding? J. R. R. Tolkien’s Mastery of Trees in The Lord of the Rings","authors":"Mary-Anne Potter, Deirdre Byrne","doi":"10.1353/uni.2022.a899299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/uni.2022.a899299","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43426,"journal":{"name":"LION AND THE UNICORN","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42857776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1353/uni.2022.a899298
Beth M. S. Boyens
{"title":"Unearthing the Roots: White Privilege and Trauma in A. S. King’s Dig","authors":"Beth M. S. Boyens","doi":"10.1353/uni.2022.a899298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/uni.2022.a899298","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43426,"journal":{"name":"LION AND THE UNICORN","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41763569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Farris, Gretchen Papazian, Sara Austin, S. Day, David O. Russell, Karin E. Westman, N. Wood, S. Sabnis, D. D. Rosa, Maya Socolovsky, V. Veldhuizen, Siddharth Pandey, R. Fitzsimmons
{"title":"Mapping Fairy-Tale Space: Pastiche and Metafiction in Borderless Tales by Christy Williams (review)","authors":"A. Farris, Gretchen Papazian, Sara Austin, S. Day, David O. Russell, Karin E. Westman, N. Wood, S. Sabnis, D. D. Rosa, Maya Socolovsky, V. Veldhuizen, Siddharth Pandey, R. Fitzsimmons","doi":"10.1353/uni.2022.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/uni.2022.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43426,"journal":{"name":"LION AND THE UNICORN","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49205692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}