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"Rossamund Bookchild is finally becoming a lamplighter. Sworn into the Emperors service, his duty is to light the lamps along the Emperor's highways, and protect all travellers from the ferocious bogles that live in the wild. But he's found it no easier to fit in with the lamplighters than he ever has - always too small and too meek, his loneliness continues no matter how hard he tries to succeed. But when a haughty young girl, a member of a suspiciously-regarded society of all women teratologists is forced upon the lamplighters for training, Rossamund might no longer be the most despised soul around." (Source: Series website)
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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.
Affiliation Notes
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This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it has been translated into Chinese.
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"Surviving" Adolescence : Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Transformations In Young Adult Fiction
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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The Children's Book Council of Australia Judges Report 2009
2009
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— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of The Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 53 no. 3 2009; (p. 4-10) -
[Review] Lamplighter
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 22 no. 2 2008; (p. 14)
— Review of Lamplighter 2008 single work children's fiction -
[Review] Lamplighter
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books For Young Adults , Winter vol. 16 no. 2 2008; (p. 35)
— Review of Lamplighter 2008 single work children's fiction -
[Review] Lamplighter
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 23 no. 2 2008; (p. 40)
— Review of Lamplighter 2008 single work children's fiction
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[Review] Lamplighter
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , March vol. 87 no. 7 2008; (p. 41)
— Review of Lamplighter 2008 single work children's fiction -
Spur to Imagination
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 302 2008; (p. 31)
— Review of Lamplighter 2008 single work children's fiction -
Kids' Lit
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 28-29 June 2008; (p. 10)
— Review of Then 2008 single work children's fiction ; Lamplighter 2008 single work children's fiction ; Anna the Goanna and Other Poems 2000 selected work poetry ; Georgiana : Woman of Flowers 2008 single work novel -
[Review] Lamplighter
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 23 no. 2 2008; (p. 40)
— Review of Lamplighter 2008 single work children's fiction -
[Review] Lamplighter
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books For Young Adults , Winter vol. 16 no. 2 2008; (p. 35)
— Review of Lamplighter 2008 single work children's fiction -
The Children's Book Council of Australia Judges Report 2009
2009
single work
column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of The Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 53 no. 3 2009; (p. 4-10) -
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"Surviving" Adolescence : Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Transformations In Young Adult Fiction
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.
Awards
- 2009 nominated Nebula Awards — Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy
- 2009 finalist Locus Awards — Young Adult Novel
- 2009 shortlisted CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Book of the Year: Older Readers
- 2009 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature
- 2008 shortlisted Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction — Young Adult Division — Best Novel