Marvellous Codes: The Fiction of Margaret Mahy
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Margaret Mahy's extraordinary young-adult novels are examined by leading scholars in this collection of critical essays. Considering the ways that fantasy provides both adventure and security for adolescents, the discussion centers on the role of witches, pirates, ghosts, and tricksters in Mahy's tales.
Introduction : marvellous codes7'Solid all the way through' : Margaret Mahy's ordinary witches21Contagious knowledge : Margaret Mahy and the adolescent novel44Ariadne 'down under' : Margaret Mahy's The tricksters62Pirate parenting in Margaret Mahy's Middle-grade readers84Setting free : Margaret Mahy and disability110'Telling stories of desire' : the power of authorship in The changeover and The amber spyglass130'True-seeming lyes' in Margaret Mahy's fiction148The wobble in the symmetry : the narrator's role in The catalogue of the universe168'A fertility and felicity and ferocity of invention' : New Zealand landscapes in Margaret Mahy's young adult novels187Gardening in Eden : Margaret Mahy's postcolonial ghosts and the New Zealand landscape210Rewriting Mahy's The tricksters : exploring sense of place and fictional space through adaptation and lmitation234
