Seriality and Texts for Young People

1. Introduction: The Compulsion to Repeat
Mavis Reimer, Nyala Ali, Deanna England, Melanie Dennis Unrau

2. Off to See the Wizard Again and Again
Laurie Langbauer

3. “Anne repeated”: Taking Anne Out of Order
Laura M. Robinson

4. Kierkegaard’s Repetition and the Reading Pleasures of Repetition in Diana Wynne Jones’s Howl’s Moving Castle Series
Rose Lovell-Smith

5. Harry Potter Fans Discover the Pleasures of Transfiguration
Eliza T. Dresang, Kathleen Campana

6. Girls, Animals, Fear, and the Iterative Force of the National Pack: Reading the Dear Canada Series
Charlie Peters

7. “But what is his country?”: Producing Australian Identity through Repetition in the Victorian School Paper, 1896–1918
Michelle J. Smith

8. Serializing Scholarship: (Re)Producing Girlhood in Atalanta
Kristine Moruzi

9. “I will not / be haunted / by myself!”: Originality, Derivation, and the Hauntology of the Superhero Comic
Brandon Christopher

10. Michael Yahgulanaas’s Red and the Structures of Sequential Art
Perry Nodelman

11. The Beloved That Does Not Bite: Genre, Myth, and Repetition in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Debra Dudek

12. Roy and the Wimp: The Nature of an Aesthetic of Unfinish
Margaret Mackey

13. MP3 as Contentious Message: When Infinite Repetition Fuses with the Acoustic Sphere
Larissa Wodtke

14. The Little Transgender Mermaid: A Shape-Shifting Tale
Nat Hurley

Keywords: Literature, Children's Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, British and Irish Literature, Literary History