Diana Wynne Jones: Bristol 2019

The Proceedings of the Diana Wynne Jones Conference, Bristol 2019. Table of Contents1. Everything I learned about running a convention I learned from Deep SecretThe Pleasures and Challenges (Expected and Unexpected) of Teaching Diana Wynne Jones in the College Classroom2. Teaching Fire and Hemlock and Charmed Life3. "Not One Hobbit Have I Seen!": Generic Conventions and Teaching Diana Wynne Jones' Work4. Teaching Howl's Moving Castle5. Diana Wynne Jones' Stories for Young Readers: "How Do Young Readers Like Them?"Families and How to Survive Them6. The Tough Guide to Growing Up: Diana Wynne Jones' Lessons on Coming of Age7. Family in the Works of Diana Wynne Jones8. Step-parents in The Ogre Downstairs and Howl's Moving Castle9. Diana Wynne Jones and CatsWiles and Wisdom10. Mini, Millie, Magid: Unconventional Women in the Works of Diana Wynne Jones11. "Drowning in Bleach": Guilt and Shame in Diana Wynne JonesUnder the Influence12. What Did They Teach Her in Those Schools? Or "Damn It! I'm Turning into C.S. Lewis": Diana Wynne Jones and C.S. Lewis13. Where She Got It From: Diana Wynne Jones, Other Towns, and Piers Plowman14. Invisible and Visible Influence: Diana Wynne Jones, E. Nesbit, and Children Who Are Not Seen15. Keynote: Living a Charmed LifeConcealment and Revelation16. "Do We Know Each Other?": Hidden Identities, Referential Characters, and Narrative Possibilities in Diana Wynne Jones' Hexwood17. Concealment and Revelation: Reading Diana Wynne Jones' Magic through Western Esoteric Traditions18. Buried Alive: The Arthur/Merlin Motif in the Novels of Diana Wynne JonesBuilt Environments19. Contracts and Calcifer, or "In Which A Contract Is Concluded Before Witnesses": the Transactional Structure of Howl's Moving Castle20. Jones and Quantum Foam21. Making Sense of Settings: How Sensory Description Builds Dalemark22. Diana Wynne Jones' Contemporary MedievalismInto the Woods23. Ideologies of Power in Hexwood24. Fractured Humanity/Fragments of Humanity in Hexwood25. Time in Diana Wynne Jones26. There's Nothing Magic About Words: Translating Diana Wynne Jones into HebrewWizarding Worlds27. "So Would You Mind Telling Me Where I Am? It's a Stately Home of Some Kind, Isn't It?" (Charmed Life)28. Walled Gardens, Lonely Attics and Public Schools: the Romance, the Canon and Constructions of Englishness in the Chrestomanci Series29. It Takes a Wizard: Exploring the Role of Wizards within their Communities in Howl's Moving Castle, Frogkisser! and The Evil Wizard Smallbone30. The Wizard of a Thousand Faces: Pinning Down the Trickster Wizard in The Howl TrilogyPower and the Corporations31. A Remedy, or, the Meaning of the Goon's Small Head32. "Want Television!": the "Drama of Screens" in Archer's Goon (BBC, 1992)33. "We Need to Make the Place Pay Somehow": Magical Universities and Money in Year of the GriffinNationality and Borders34. Deconstructing Dalemark: an Alternate History of Northern Europe35. Bounds, Homes and Riding away: An Exploration of Border Representation and National Identity within the Novels of Diana Wynne Jones36. In Short, the Map is Useless: Cartography and Maps in Diana Wynne Jones' Books and Stories 37. Diana: My Sister's ImaginationPrimary Bibliography: Works by Diana Wynne Jones