Seriality and Texts for Young People

Kathleen Campana, University of Washington, USA Brandon Christopher, University of Winnipeg, Canada Eliza T. Dresang, University of Washington, USA Debra Dudek, University of Wollongong, Australia Nat Hurley, University of Alberta, Canada Laurie Langbauer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Rose Lovell-Smith, University of Auckland, New Zealand Margaret Mackey, University of Alberta, Canada Kristine Moruzi, Deakin University, Australia Perry Nodelman, The University of Winnipeg, Canada Charlie Peters, Independent Scholar, Canada Laura Robinson, Royal Military College of Canada, Canada Michelle J. Smith, Deakin University, Australia Larissa Wodtke, University of Winnipeg, Canada

• Introduction: The Compulsion to Repeat; Mavis Reimer, Nyala Ali, Deanna England, and Melanie Dennis Unrau 1. Off to See the Wizard Again and Again; Laurie Langbauer 2. 'Anne repeated': Taking Anne Out of Order; Laura M. Robinson 3. Kierkegaard's Repetition and the Reading Pleasures of Repetition in Diana Wynne Jones's Howl's Moving Castle Series; Rose Lovell-Smith 4. Harry Potter Fans Discover the Pleasures of Transfiguration; Eliza T. Dresang and Kathleen Campana 5. Girls, Animals, Fear, and the Iterative Force of the National Pack: Reading the Dear Canada Series; Charlie Peters 6. 'But what is his country?': Producing Australian Identity through Repetition in the Victorian School Paper, 1896-1918; Michelle J. Smith 7. Serializing Scholarship: (Re)Producing Girlhood in Atalanta; Kristine Moruzi 8. 'I will not / be haunted / by myself!': Originality, Derivation, and the Hauntology of the Superhero Comic; Brandon Christopher 9. Michael Yahgulanaas's Red and the Structures of SequentialArt; Perry Nodelman 10. The Beloved That Does Not Bite: Genre, Myth, and Repetition in Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Debra Dudek 11. Roy and the Wimp: The Nature of an Aesthetic of Unfinish; Margaret Mackey 12. MP3 as Contentious Message: When Infinite Repetition Fuses with the Acoustic Sphere; Larissa Wodtke 13. The Little Transgender Mermaid: A Shape-Shifting Tale; Nat Hurley Index

“It is a diverse and engaging collection of articles from a wide variety of scholars currently working in the field. … Seriality and Texts explores a virgin territory in the field of children’s cultural studies with enthusiasm and aplomb. It encourages us to reflect on the value of serialised texts and the rewards inherent in re-reading. … collection also succeeds in demonstrating the importance of taking children’s serialised literature seriously, both as a cultural document and as an art form.” (Ben Screech, International Research in Children's Literature, Vol. 9 (1), July, 2016)