Seriality and Texts for Young People: The Compulsion to Repeat

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction: The Compulsion to Repeat....Pages 1-33
Off to See the Wizard Again and Again....Pages 34-56
“Anne repeated”: Taking Anne Out of Order....Pages 57-73
Kierkegaard’s Repetition and the Reading Pleasures of Repetition in Diana Wynne Jones’s Howl’s Moving Castle Series....Pages 74-94
Harry Potter Fans Discover the Pleasures of Transfiguration....Pages 95-110
Girls, Animals, Fear, and the Iterative Force of the National Pack: Reading the Dear Canada Series....Pages 111-128
“But what is his country?”: Producing Australian Identity through Repetition in the Victorian School Paper, 1896–1918....Pages 129-148
Serializing Scholarship: (Re)Producing Girlhood in Atalanta....Pages 149-165
“I will not / be haunted / by myself!”: Originality, Derivation, and the Hauntology of the Superhero Comic....Pages 166-187
Michael Yahgulanaas’s Red and the Structures of Sequential Art....Pages 188-205
The Beloved That Does Not Bite: Genre, Myth, and Repetition in Buffy the Vampire Slayer....Pages 206-217
Roy and the Wimp: The Nature of an Aesthetic of Unfinish....Pages 218-236
MP3 as Contentious Message: When Infinite Repetition Fuses with the Acoustic Sphere....Pages 237-257
The Little Transgender Mermaid: A Shape-Shifting Tale....Pages 258-280
Back Matter....Pages 281-292