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Diana Wynne Jones: Bristol 2019

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

Table of Contents

Diana Wynne Jones Conference E-book – Introduction.................................................6

1. Everything I learned about running a convention I learned from Deep Secret...............................7

The Pleasures and Challenges (Expected and Unexpected) of Teaching Diana Wynne Jones in the College Classroom...................................................................................10 2. Teaching Fire and Hemlock and Charmed Life............................................................................11 3. "Not One Hobbit Have I Seen!": Generic Conventions and Teaching Diana Wynne Jones' Work14 4. Teaching Howl's Moving Castle...................................................................................................20 5. Diana Wynne Jones' Stories for Young Readers: "How Do Young Readers Like Them?"...........24 Families and How to Survive Them..............................................................................32 6. The Tough Guide to Growing Up: Diana Wynne Jones' Lessons on Coming of Age...................33 7. Family in the Works of Diana Wynne Jones................................................................................38 8. Step-parents in The Ogre Downstairs and Howl's Moving Castle................................................42 9. Diana Wynne Jones and Cats.....................................................................................................44 Wiles and Wisdom........................................................................................................48 10. Mini, Millie, Magid: Unconventional Women in the Works of Diana Wynne Jones.....................49 11. "Drowning in Bleach": Guilt and Shame in Diana Wynne Jones................................................53 Under the Influence......................................................................................................57 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..........................................................................................................58 13. Where She Got It From: Diana Wynne Jones, Other Towns, and Piers Plowman.....................62 14. Invisible and Visible Influence: Diana Wynne Jones, E. Nesbit, and Children Who Are Not Seen ........................................................................................................................................................ 66 15. Keynote: Living a Charmed Life................................................................................................70 Concealment and Revelation........................................................................................75 16. "Do We Know Each Other?": Hidden Identities, Referential Characters, and Narrative Possibilities in Diana Wynne Jones' Hexwood................................................................................76 17. Concealment and Revelation: Reading Diana Wynne Jones' Magic through Western Esoteric Traditions........................................................................................................................................ 80 18. Buried Alive: The Arthur/Merlin Motif in the Novels of Diana Wynne Jones...............................86 Built Environments........................................................................................................92 19. Contracts and Calcifer, or "In Which A Contract Is Concluded Before Witnesses": the Transactional Structure of Howl's Moving Castle.............................................................................93
20. Jones and Quantum Foam........................................................................................................99 21. Making Sense of Settings: How Sensory Description Builds Dalemark...................................103 22. Diana Wynne Jones' Contemporary Medievalism...................................................................107

Into the Woods............................................................................................................112

23. Ideologies of Power in Hexwood..............................................................................................113 24. Fractured Humanity/Fragments of Humanity in Hexwood........................................................117 25. Time in Diana Wynne Jones....................................................................................................120 26. There's Nothing Magic About Words: Translating Diana Wynne Jones into Hebrew...............123

Wizarding Worlds........................................................................................................127

27. "So Would You Mind Telling Me Where I Am? It's a Stately Home of Some Kind, Isn't It?" (Charmed Life)..............................................................................................................................128 28. Walled Gardens, Lonely Attics and Public Schools: the Romance, the Canon and Constructions of Englishness in the Chrestomanci Series...................................................................................132 29. It Takes a Wizard: Exploring the Role of Wizards within their Communities in Howl's Moving Castle, Frogkisser! and The Evil Wizard Smallbone......................................................................136 30. The Wizard of a Thousand Faces: Pinning Down the Trickster Wizard in The Howl Trilogy....139

Power and the Corporations.......................................................................................146

31. A Remedy, or, the Meaning of the Goon's Small Head............................................................147 32. "Want Television!": the "Drama of Screens" in Archer's Goon (BBC, 1992).............................151 33. "We Need to Make the Place Pay Somehow": Magical Universities and Money in Year of the Griffin............................................................................................................................................ 155

Nationality and Borders..............................................................................................160

34. Deconstructing Dalemark: an Alternate History of Northern Europe........................................161 35. Bounds, Homes and Riding away: An Exploration of Border Representation and National Identity within the Novels of Diana Wynne Jones..........................................................................165 36. In Short, the Map is Useless: Cartography and Maps in Diana Wynne Jones' Books and Stories ...................................................................................................................................................... 169 37. Diana: My Sister's Imagination................................................................................................174 Primary Bibliography: Works by Diana Wynne Jones....................................................................185 The Contributors...........................................................................................................................199 Kickstarter supporters...................................................................................................................202 Index of Chapters Discussing Jones' Books..................................................................................204

Poems, by Diana Wynne Jones..................................................................................205

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