Appropriate or anathema? The representation of incest in children's literature
- Authors: Mills, Alice
- Date: 2018
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Incest in contemporary literature p. 117-132
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Reading the world as book, the book as world: Funke and Grossman's book-world fanatasies
- Authors: Mills, Alice , Mummery, Jane
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: New York Review of Science Fiction Vol. 26, no. 4 (2013), p. 4-8
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- Description: Book Review
Heart strings and hop pocket: Garth Nix's writings for children, young adults and adult
- Authors: Mills, Alice
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Sold by the Millions: Australia's bestsellers p. 67-81
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- Description: 'In any Australian bookshop oriented to the general public, as in Britain and the USA, fantasy books for children and young adults have gained huge increase in shelf space over the past decade; enough fantasy books for these age groups have been published each year in Australia to begin to justify a division on the shelves between realist and fantasy (and, more recently, another division between fantasy and the paranormal) Australian fiction. Fantasy for these age groups ia a major selling category, and the categories for the Aurealis Awards (the premier Australian award for speculative fiction) have been progressively expanded, in the case of children's literature, to five. Fantasy for these age groups is thus a major sector of the Australian market. The ferocity of competition for substantial awards, both monetary and in terms of literary prizes, perhaps explains why some fantasy authors for children and young adults are in the forefront of Australian literary marketing in the first decade of the twenty-first century, Garth Nix being among the most successful in the field. (Authors introduction )
- Description: 2003009327
Spiritual, not sexual: The plight of the adolescent human wizard in Diane Duane's Young Wizards series
- Authors: Mills, Alice
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Supernatural Youth - The rise of the teen hero in literature and popular culture p. 15-27
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- Description: 2003009326
Apotheosis and return
- Authors: Mills, Alice
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion p. 66-67
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Cupid and Psyche
- Authors: Mills, Alice
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion p. 192-193
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Dismemberment
- Authors: Mills, Alice
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion p. 241-243
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Etiological myth
- Authors: Mills, Alice
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion p. 301-302
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Harry Potter: Agency or addiction?
- Authors: Mills, Alice
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Children's Literature in Education Vol. 41, no. 4 (2010), p. 291-301
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- Description: This article considers limitations on agency for characters in the Harry Potter novels, in particular, how far they are driven by an addictive yearning for their beloved dead. As well as Harry's yearning for his dead parents, Dumbledore's guilt, Snape's longing and Slughorn's craving can be read as evidence of addiction rather than love, while the Sorting ritual throws into doubt agency among the students in general. © 2010 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
Refusal of the call
- Authors: Mills, Alice
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion p. 759-760
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Song of experience
- Authors: Mills, Alice
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: World enough p. 150
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- Description: Creative work- Poem
The Call
- Authors: Mills, Alice
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion p. 122
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For Little Australians; Australian Children’s Literature
- Authors: Mills, Alice
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Reading Down Under: Australian Literary Studies Reader Chapter p. 447 - 453
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Forms of death in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea, and Garth Nix's Old Kingdom novels
- Authors: Mills, Alice
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Literature and Aesthetics: Journal of the Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics Vol. 19, no. 2 (2009), p. 92-104
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- Description: As soon as fantasy writers make factual statements about the nature of their fictional worlds, limits come into play. If this is a world ruled by one omnipotent deity, it is going to be tricky to introduce the Greek gods later on; if magic works by a certain set of rules, it cannot work by conflicting rules without the need for justification; if ghosts exist, some explanation will be required when the narrator asserts that no-one comes back from the dead. This paper explores and evaluates ways in which three contemporary fantasy writers set up and dissolve such limits with regard to the after life. Each of these writers has produced an extended, multi-volume fantasy opus amply establishing rules and limits for its fictional world or worlds: Ursula Le Guin in her six-volume Earthsea series, Philip Pullman in his trilogy, His Dark Materials, and Garth Nix in his Old Kingdom series of novels (four volumes to date). Each of these writers sets up what I shall term a ‘first death’ and a ‘second death’; the second death is presented in their fictions as a final stage of being while the first death, although it may initially seem permanent, turns out to be transitional. Each of these fictions ultimately dissolves the limits that seem to have been set up in the first death, but their strategies of release are arguably not always as liberatory as claimed.
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Nights at the airport
- Authors: Mills, Alice
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Nebula Vol. 6, no. 2 p. 174-176
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- Description: A personal narrative is presented in which the author explains her experiences while waiting for a plane at the airport at night.
- Description: 2003008013
The Chronicles of Narnia : Prince Caspian
- Authors: Mills, Alice
- Date: 2009
- Type: Journal article
- Relation: Scope Vol. , no. 14 (2009), p.
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Behind the bum : A psychoanalytic reading of Andy Griffiths’ Bum trilogy
- Authors: Mills, Alice
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Papers: Explorations into children's literature Vol. 18, no. 2 (2008), p. 78-84
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- Description: Anal jokes abound in Andy Griffiths' trilogy of novels for children, The Day My Bum Went Psycho (2001), Zombie Bums From Uranus (2003) and Bumageddon (2005). The titles of the second and third volumes give a fair idea of the quality and makeup of these jokes: they generally take the form either of double entendres (Uranus or "your anus", a joke likely to be lost on American readers because in the USA "anus" is a taboo word and Uranus is therefore mispronounced "urinous") or anal transmogrifications of common words (Bumageddon for Armageddon). Such jokes can be found on almost every page of the trilogy, sometimes more than once on a page. To date, Griffiths' Bum trilogy has received scant critical attention with the exception of Yvonne Hammer's 'Interrogating the Humanist Subject in Carnivalesque Quest Novels' (2006); but its extreme focus on matters anal in both wordplay and plot invites scrutiny from those theoretical perspectives that take an interest in the scatalogical. In this paper I shall be considering the trilogy's fondness for anal jokes and bums from three such perspectives, those of Mikhail Bakhtin, Julia Kristeva and Sigmund Freud.
Harry Potter and the Horrors of the Oresteia
- Authors: Mills, Alice
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Book
- Relation: Critical Perspectives on Harry Potter
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History
- Authors: Mills, Alice
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Writings on the Shipwreck Coast Chapter p.
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How to be happy by calling for change : Constructs of happiness and meaningfulness among social movement activists
- Authors: Mills, Alice , Smith, Jeremy
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Qualitative Report Vol. 13, no. 3 (2008), p. 432-455
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- Description: This paper focuses on how social movement activists view happiness in relation to their political involvement. Interviewers asked activists questions about their personal histories and feelings. The phenomenological strategy involved focused on interviews with subjects who could speak richly about their commitments and emotions. The data from the 11 subjects revealed that there was no simple relationship between a commitment to social activism and subjects experiences of happiness. Several subjects oriented their responses to the relationship between meaningfulness, activism, and happiness. In discussion of the analyzed data, the authors suggest that a relationship is evident between the positions articulated by interviewees and their levels of engagement in and withdrawal from activism.