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  1. The universe of Oz
    essays on Baum's series and its progeny
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  McFarland, Jefferson, N.C. [u.a.]

    Universitätsbibliothek Würzburg
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780786456222
    RVK Categories: HT 3615
    Subjects: Fantasy fiction, American; Children's stories, American; Fantasy fiction, American; Fantasy films; Oz (Imaginary place)
    Other subjects: Baum, L. Frank (1856-1919); Baum, L. Frank (1856-1919): Wizard of Oz; Baum, L. Frank (1856-1919); Baum, L. Frank (1856-1919); Baum, L. Frank (1856-1919); Baum, L. Frank (1856-1919): The wonderful wizard of Oz
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (V, 252 S.)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

  2. Novels for students. Volume 13
    presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels
    Contributor: Thomason, Elizabeth (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  Gale Group, Detroit, Mich. ; Gale Cengage Learning, [Farmington Hills, Michigan]

    Each volume provides discussions of the literary and historical background of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes concise synopses of plot, characters and themes, a brief author biography, discussion of the story's cultural and... more

    Universität Frankfurt, Elektronische Ressourcen
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    Each volume provides discussions of the literary and historical background of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes concise synopses of plot, characters and themes, a brief author biography, discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance, and excerpted criticism.

     

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  3. Novels for students
    presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels ; Volume 13
    Contributor: Thomason, Elizabeth (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: c2002
    Publisher:  Gale Group, Detroit, Mich

    Absalom, Absalom! / William Faulkner -- All the king's men / Robert Penn Warren -- Brideshead revisited / Evelyn Waugh -- The death of the heart / Elizabeth Bowen -- The kitchen god's wife / Amy Tan -- The member of the wedding / Carson McCullers --... more

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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
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    Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg
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    Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky
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    Absalom, Absalom! / William Faulkner -- All the king's men / Robert Penn Warren -- Brideshead revisited / Evelyn Waugh -- The death of the heart / Elizabeth Bowen -- The kitchen god's wife / Amy Tan -- The member of the wedding / Carson McCullers -- Moll Flanders / Daniel Defoe -- Nectar in a sieve / Kamala Markandaya -- The optimist's daughter / Eudora Welty -- The remains of the day -- Kazuo Ishiguro -- Snow falling on cedars / David Guterson -- Surfacing / Margaret Atwood -- The sweet hereafter / Russell Banks -- Vanity Fair / William Thackeray -- The wonderful wizard of Oz / L. Frank Baum. Each volume provides discussions of the literary and historical background of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes concise synopses of plot, characters and themes, a brief author biography, discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance, and excerpted criticism

     

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  4. The universe of Oz
    essays on Baum's series and its progeny
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  McFarland & Company, Jefferson, NC

    The Wizard of Oz has captured the imagination of the public since publication of L. Frank Baum's first book of the series in 1900. Oz has shaped the way we read children's literature, view motion pictures and experience musicals. Oz has captured the... more

    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
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    The Wizard of Oz has captured the imagination of the public since publication of L. Frank Baum's first book of the series in 1900. Oz has shaped the way we read children's literature, view motion pictures and experience musicals. Oz has captured the scholarly imagination as well. The seventeen essays in this book address numerous questions of the boundaries between literature, film, and stage--and these have become essential to Oz scholarship. Together the essays explore the ways in which Oz tells us much about ourselves, our society, and our journeys

     

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    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780786446285; 1282542664; 9781282542662; 9780786456222
    RVK Categories: HT 3615
    Subjects: Fantasy fiction, American; Fantasy films; Oz (Imaginary place); Children's stories, American; Fantasy fiction, American
    Other subjects: Baum, L. Frank (1856-1919); Baum, L. Frank (1856-1919); Baum, L. Frank (1856-1919); Baum, L. Frank (1856-1919); Baum, L. Frank (1856-1919): Wizard of Oz
    Scope: Online-Ressource (vi, 252 p)
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

    Cover; Contents; Preface; Part One: Oz and Literary Criticism; 1. The Emerald Canon; 2. Dorothy and Cinderella; 3. Psychospiritual Wizdom; 4. "Come out, come out, wherever you are"; 5. "Something between higgledy-piggledy and the eternal sphere"; 6. No Place Like the O.Z.; 7. The Wizard of Oz as a Modernist Work; Part Two: Oz and Philosophy; 8. Ask the Clock of the Time Dragon; 9. Down the Yellow Brick Road; 10. The "Wonderful" Wizard of Oz and Other Lies; 11. Memories Cloaked in Magic; 12. The Wicked Wizard of Oz; 13. A Feminist Stroll Down the Yellow Brick Road

    Part Three: Oz and Social Critique14. The Wiz; 15. The Wiz as the Seventies' Version of The Wizard of Oz; 16. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; 17. The Ethics and Epistemology of Emancipation in Oz; About the Contributors; Index

  5. Novels for students
    presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels ; Volume 13
    Contributor: Thomason, Elizabeth (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: c2002
    Publisher:  Gale Group, Detroit, Mich

    Absalom, Absalom! / William Faulkner -- All the king's men / Robert Penn Warren -- Brideshead revisited / Evelyn Waugh -- The death of the heart / Elizabeth Bowen -- The kitchen god's wife / Amy Tan -- The member of the wedding / Carson McCullers --... more

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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    Absalom, Absalom! / William Faulkner -- All the king's men / Robert Penn Warren -- Brideshead revisited / Evelyn Waugh -- The death of the heart / Elizabeth Bowen -- The kitchen god's wife / Amy Tan -- The member of the wedding / Carson McCullers -- Moll Flanders / Daniel Defoe -- Nectar in a sieve / Kamala Markandaya -- The optimist's daughter / Eudora Welty -- The remains of the day -- Kazuo Ishiguro -- Snow falling on cedars / David Guterson -- Surfacing / Margaret Atwood -- The sweet hereafter / Russell Banks -- Vanity Fair / William Thackeray -- The wonderful wizard of Oz / L. Frank Baum. Each volume provides discussions of the literary and historical background of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes concise synopses of plot, characters and themes, a brief author biography, discussion of the story's cultural and historical significance, and excerpted criticism

     

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