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y separately published work icon Foundling single work   children's fiction   children's   fantasy   adventure  
Alternative title: Monster Blood Tattoo : Foundling
Is part of Monster Blood Tattoo David Cornish , 2006- series - author children's fiction (number 1 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 2006... 2006 Foundling
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The Half-Continent is becoming even more unsafe - monster attacks are on the rise, and every far-flung village or town is calling for help to fight them. Into this dangerous landscape the lamplighters must venture daily, keeping the roads safely lit for travellers. It is not a job for the faint-hearted, and every week there are reports of new theroscades. Foundling Rossamünd Bookchild, sworn into the Emperor's Service as a prentice lamplighter, is finding his training at Winstermill Fortress difficult and lonely. His life is further complicated by the arrival of a young wit, determined to spite her famous mother by becoming a lowly lantern-stick. As Rossamünd begins to make new friends in this sinister world, he also seems to make more enemies, finding himself pushed towards a terrible destiny, a fate beyond anything he could ever have imagined. (Source: Trove)

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  • Steampunk note: The pseudo-Victorian secondary world of this novel is dominated by the technological aesthetic of steampunk, though the technologies themselves are actually based more on biology than steam technology, lending the work an affinity with the biopunk subgenre.

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  • This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it has a Chinese translation.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Malvern, Unley area, Adelaide - South / South East, Adelaide, South Australia,: Omnibus Books , 2006 .
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      Extent: xii, 433p.p.
      Description: illus., maps
      ISBN: 1862916055
    • Gosford, Central Coast, New South Wales,: Omnibus Books , 2006 .
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      Extent: xii, 433p.p.
      Description: illus., maps
      Note/s:
      • Published: 1st May 2006
      ISBN: 1862916055 (hbk.), 9781862916326, 9781862916050 (hbk.)
    • Oxford, Oxfordshire,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,
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      David Fickling Books ,
      2007 .
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      Extent: x, 435p.p.
      Description: illus. maps
      Note/s:
      • Published: 1st February 2007
      ISBN: 9780385611480
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      Corgi Books ,
      2008 .
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      Extent: vii, 435p.p.
      Description: illus. maps
      Note/s:
      • Published: 1st May 2008
      ISBN: 9780552555876 (pbk.), 0552555878 (pbk.)
Alternative title: Shou xue wen. Shou bu qu, Bei yi qi de hai zi
Alternative title: 獸血紋. 首部曲, 被遺棄的孩子
Alternative title: Bei yi qi de hai zi
Alternative title: 被遺棄的孩子
Language: Chinese
    • Taipei,
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      Taiwan,
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      East Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
      :
      Zhi shu fang chu ban she ,
      2009 .
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      Extent: 473p.
      Description: illus. maps
      ISBN: 9789867151995 (pbk.), 9867151992 (pbk.)

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'This study, entitled "Surviving" Adolescence: Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic transformations in young adult fiction", analyses how discourses surrounding the apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic are represented in selected young adult fiction published between 1997 and 2009. The term ―apocalypse‖ is used by current theorists to refer to an uncovering or disclosure (most often a truth), and post-apocalypse means to be after a disclosure, after a revelation, or after catastrophe.

'This study offers a double reading of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic discourses, and the dialectical tensions that are inherent in, and arise from, these discourses. Drawing on the current scholarship of children‘s and young adult literature this thesis uses post-structural theoretical perspectives to develop a framework and methodology for conducting a close textual analysis of exclusion, un-differentiation, prophecy, and simulacra of death. The combined theoretical perspectives and methodology offer new contributions to young adult fiction scholarship.

'This thesis finds that rather than conceiving adolescence as the endurance of a passing phase of a young person‘s life, there is a new trend emerging in young adult fiction that treats adolescence as a space of transformation essential to the survival of the young adult, and his/her community.'

Source: QUT ePrints.

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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 27 May 2006; (p. 16-17)

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This Week's Selections Katharine England , 2006 single work review
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Prepare for Another Wild World Rae Turton , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 27 - 28 May 2006; (p. 26)

— Review of Foundling David Cornish , 2006 single work children's fiction
The Children's Book Council of Australia Judges' Report 2007 2007 single work column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 51 no. 3 2007; (p. 5-12)
D M Cornish Wendy Noble , 2007 single work column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 51 no. 3 2007; (p. 24)
y separately published work icon "Surviving" Adolescence : Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Transformations In Young Adult Fiction Anna Whateley , Kelvin Grove : 2010 Z1761971 2010 single work thesis

'This study, entitled "Surviving" Adolescence: Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic transformations in young adult fiction", analyses how discourses surrounding the apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic are represented in selected young adult fiction published between 1997 and 2009. The term ―apocalypse‖ is used by current theorists to refer to an uncovering or disclosure (most often a truth), and post-apocalypse means to be after a disclosure, after a revelation, or after catastrophe.

'This study offers a double reading of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic discourses, and the dialectical tensions that are inherent in, and arise from, these discourses. Drawing on the current scholarship of children‘s and young adult literature this thesis uses post-structural theoretical perspectives to develop a framework and methodology for conducting a close textual analysis of exclusion, un-differentiation, prophecy, and simulacra of death. The combined theoretical perspectives and methodology offer new contributions to young adult fiction scholarship.

'This thesis finds that rather than conceiving adolescence as the endurance of a passing phase of a young person‘s life, there is a new trend emerging in young adult fiction that treats adolescence as a space of transformation essential to the survival of the young adult, and his/her community.'

Source: QUT ePrints.

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