Peter Pan's Shadows in the Literary Imagination

ISBN-13: 9781138849693 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 172 str.

Kirsten Stirling

Opis

This book is a literary analysis of J.M. Barrie s Peter Pan in all its different versions -- key rewritings, dramatisations, prequels, and sequels -- and includes a synthesis of the main critical interpretations of the text over its history. A comprehensive and intelligent study of the Peter Pan phenomenon, this study discusses the book s complicated textual history, exploring its origins in the Harlequinade theatrical tradition and British pantomime in the nineteenth century. Stirling investigates potential textual and extra-textual sources for Peter Pan, the critical tendency to seek sources in Barrie s own biography, and the proliferation of prequels and sequels aiming to explain, contextualize, or close off, Barrie s exploration of the imagination. The sources considered include Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson s Starcatchers trilogy, Regis Loisel s six-part Peter Pan graphic novel in French (1990-2004), Andrew Birkin s The Lost Boys series, the films Hook (1991), Peter Pan (2003) and Finding Neverland (2004), and Geraldine McCaughrean s "official sequel" Peter Pan in Scarlet (2006), among others. "

Spis treści

Acknowledgements  Abbreviations and References  Introduction: The Shadow of Peter Pan  1. Origins and Storytelling  2. Peter and Pantomime  3. Wendy and Peter  4. Before Peter Pan: Loisel 5. Imagining Barrie  6. Ending Peter Pan  7. Sequels  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Kirsten Stirling teaches in the English department of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. She is the author of Bella Caledonia: Woman, Nation, Text (2008) and has published articles on Scottish literature and the poetry of John Donne.