Diana Wynne Jones: Bristol 2019

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The Proceedings of the Diana Wynne Jones Conference, Bristol 2019.

Table of Contents

1. Everything I learned about running a convention I learned from Deep Secret
The Pleasures and Challenges of Teaching Diana Wynne Jones in the College Classroom
2. Teaching Fire and Hemlock and Charmed Life
3. "Not One Hobbit Have I Seen!": Generic Conventions and Teaching Diana Wynne Jones' Work
4. Teaching Howl's Moving Castle
5. Diana Wynne Jones' Stories for Young Readers: "How Do Young Readers Like Them?"
Families and How to Survive Them
6. The Tough Guide to Growing Up: Diana Wynne Jones' Lessons on Coming of Age
7. Family in the Works of Diana Wynne Jones
8. Step-parents in The Ogre Downstairs and Howl's Moving Castle
9. Diana Wynne Jones and Cats
Wiles and Wisdom
10. Mini, Millie, Magid: Unconventional Women in the Works of Diana Wynne Jones
11. "Drowning in Bleach": Guilt and Shame in Diana Wynne Jones
Under the Influence
12. What Did They Teach Her in Those Schools? Or "Damn It! I'm Turning into C.S. Lewis": Diana Wynne Jones and C.S. Lewis
13. Where She Got It From: Diana Wynne Jones, Other Towns, and Piers Plowman
14. Invisible and Visible Influence: Diana Wynne Jones, E. Nesbit, and Children Who Are Not Seen
15. Keynote: Living a Charmed Life
Concealment and Revelation
16. "Do We Know Each Other?": Hidden Identities, Referential Characters, and Narrative Possibilities in Diana Wynne Jones' Hexwood
17. Concealment and Revelation: Reading Diana Wynne Jones' Magic through Western Esoteric Traditions
18. Buried Alive: The Arthur/Merlin Motif in the Novels of Diana Wynne Jones
Built Environments
19. Contracts and Calcifer, or "In Which A Contract Is Concluded Before Witnesses": the Transactional Structure of Howl's Moving Castle
20. Jones and Quantum Foam
21. Making Sense of Settings: How Sensory Description Builds Dalemark
22. Diana Wynne Jones' Contemporary Medievalism
Into the Woods
23. Ideologies of Power in Hexwood
24. Fractured Humanity/Fragments of Humanity in Hexwood
25. Time in Diana Wynne Jones
26. There's Nothing Magic About Words: Translating Diana Wynne Jones into Hebrew
Wizarding Worlds
27. "So Would You Mind Telling Me Where I Am? It's a Stately Home of Some Kind, Isn't It?"
28. Walled Gardens, Lonely Attics and Public Schools: the Romance, the Canon and Constructions of Englishness in the Chrestomanci Series
29. It Takes a Wizard: Exploring the Role of Wizards within their Communities in Howl's Moving Castle, Frogkisser! and The Evil Wizard Smallbone
30. The Wizard of a Thousand Faces: Pinning Down the Trickster Wizard in The Howl Trilogy
Power and the Corporations
31. A Remedy, or, the Meaning of the Goon's Small Head
32. "Want Television!": the "Drama of Screens" in Archer's Goon
33. "We Need to Make the Place Pay Somehow": Magical Universities and Money in Year of the Griffin
Nationality and Borders
34. Deconstructing Dalemark: an Alternate History of Northern Europe
35. Bounds, Homes and Riding away: An Exploration of Border Representation and National Identity within the Novels of Diana Wynne Jones
36. In Short, the Map is Useless: Cartography and Maps in Diana Wynne Jones' Books and Stories
37. Diana: My Sister's Imagination

Primary Bibliography: Works by Diana Wynne Jones