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Geological Survey and Comprehensive Analysis of a Dangerous Slope in the Weibei Limestone Mine
Authors: Liu Kuiming , Ma Gaotong , Yu Haoran , Ma Tianyi , Tao Zhigang
Published: January 2022

There are abundant limestone resources in Weibei area. However, under the influence of a complex geological environment and harsh external environment, they often suffer from various types of serious geological disasters, which seriously threaten the safety of the people in the mining area and the development of mining resources. Therefore, it is urgent to carry out relevant governance. Firstly, combined with the field engineering geological data of a typical limestone quarry slope in Weibei, this paper makes a detailed geological survey of the study area. Then, the geometric model of the limestone mine slope is established to analyze the stress relationship between each block and its failure mode. Finally, a deep Newtonian force monitoring and early-warning system is set up in the dangerous area of large deformation of the slope to carry out the early warning treatment of reinforcement. The results show that (1) limestone is the main component of the mine, followed by mudstone, with developed joints and fissures, broken rock mass, and high hidden danger of engineering geological disasters; (2) in addition to bending and toppling failure on the surface of the mine slope, there are three failure modes: toppling failure along the joint surface, combined failure along the joint and plane, and failure along the outward structural plane; and (3) the NPR anchor cable is used to strengthen the slope, and the real-time monitoring of the slope force changes is realized, which has a particular reference significance for the study of similar significant deformation failure mechanisms of the slope and imminent slide warning.
Marianne Dreams, The Secret Garden and the Stifled Female Quest
Authors: O'Hearn Shelley
Published: January 2022

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In the Service of Infinite and Glorious Creation: The Nature Writing of Louisa Anne Meredith
Authors: Dunscombe Kordula
Published: January 2022

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Competing Discourses in 'The Kangaroo Hunters'
Authors: Pope Robin
Published: January 2022

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Fading to Black: Aboriginal Children in Colonial Texts
Authors: Bradford Clare
Published: January 2022

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When Australia Calls: The English Immigrant in Australian Children's Literature
Authors: Pearce Sharyn
Published: January 2022

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The Abject and the Oedipal in Sonya Hartnett's Sleeping Dogs
Authors: McPherson Joanne
Published: January 2022

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The Cognitive Paradigm and its Discontents: A Plea for New Directions in Australian Children's Television Research
Authors: Rutherford Leonie
Published: January 2022

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Metafiction and Humour in The Great Escape from City Zoo
Authors: McMillan Cheryl
Published: January 2022

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Perpetrators and Princesses: Transgression and Subject Formation in Killing Aurora and Queen Kat, Carmel and St. Jude Get a Life
Authors: De Villiers Michelle
Published: January 2022

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Shaping National Identity: Representations of the Ocean in some Australian Texts
Authors: James Kathryn
Published: January 2022

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Beyond Today's Thinking: Victor Kelleher's Parkland
Authors: Murray John
Published: January 2022

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No Place Like...: Home and School as Contested Spaces in Little Soldier and Idiot Pride
Authors: Mallan Kerry
Published: January 2022

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Re-visions in School Stories
Authors: McMillan Cheryl
Published: January 2022

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The Image of Schools and Teachers in Recent American Fiction for Children and Pre-Adolescents
Authors: Bushner Diane E
Published: January 2022

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The Return of the Empire: Representations of Race, Ethnicity and Culture in Disney's Tarzan and The Jungle Book, and in the Burroughs and Kipling pre-texts
Authors: Thomson Helen
Published: January 2022

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Abjection in Contemporary Australian Young Adult Fiction
Authors: Wilson Kim
Published: January 2022

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Construction Sites of Sexual Identity: A reading of Emily Rodda's Bob the Builder and the Elves
Authors: Parsons Elizabeth
Published: January 2022

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Fear, Fur, Fauna, Falling: Into Bed with The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Authors: Read Alan
Published: January 2022

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A note on the text. Alan Read's contribution to 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: Fifty Years On' was a perfomance in which a version of this paper was delivered in conjunction with a synchronised video montage which variously extended, complemented and commented on the ideas he presented. While it is not possible to find a textual equivalent for the video-text and performance elements which played such a substantial role in the penultimate session of the day, we have tried to retain a flavour of the experience when translating performance into text.
"What is the meaning of all this gluttony?": Edgeworth, The Victorians, C. S. Lewis and a Taste for Fantasy
Authors: Vallone Lynne
Published: January 2022

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The Ape-men of Mobongu
Authors: Astor Herbert
Published: January 2022

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Playfulness in Children’s Picture Books about Bedtime: Ambivalence and Subversion in the Bedtime Story
Authors: Griffith Kathlyn , Torr Jane
Published: January 2022

In children's picture books, the connection between play and the rituals associated with bedtime is frequently addressed. Despite the fact that bedtime would seem to have little connection with play, play is a significant element in the construction of meaning in those books that focus on that period of the day. Play is embedded in bedtime picture books in many ways, through the qualities of the written language and the illustrations, and through narrative sequences.
Home Away from Home: The Place of Home in Stephen Herrick’s Verse Novel, A Simple Gift
Authors: Michaels Wendy
Published: January 2022

The notion of home has been explored from a multiplicity of perspectives by sociologists, anthropologists and postcolonialists and the resulting literature demonstrates that it is possible to conceptualise home in a variety of ways. It might be construed, as Hulme (2000) suggests, as 'the "homeland" that has been left behind as well as the place now occupied' (p.3), or as the location in which a dwelling is situated or the space that it occupies, or even the function that it performs. Or it might encompass a city, suburb, house, room or garden, a 'comfortingly bounded enclosed space, defining an "other" who is outside' (p.102) as Read (1996) proposes.
Hairy on the Inside: From Cannibals to Paedophiles
Authors: Daniel Carolyn
Published: January 2022

Cannibalism and its uses as a trope in colonial literature, contemporary fantasy, colonial writing, horror fiction, and fairy tales are considered. Episodes of cannibalism and metaphorical allusions to perverse forms of ingestion assume different forms and perform functions inflected by historical and cultural contexts, but they are apt to construct distinctions between self and others.
Re-membering the Self Psychoanalytic Theory and Subjectivity in Adolescent Fiction
Authors: Sly Cathy
Published: January 2022

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A Review of Youth Cultures: Texts, Images and Identity (Book Review)
Authors: Reynolds Kimberley
Published: January 2022

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Remember Not To Die: Young Girls and Video Games
Authors: Walkerdine Valerie
Published: January 2022

Video games are played very differently by boys and girls, as girls do not tend to take the game as competitively as boys do. If video games are part of a set of technologies and practices for the production and management of contemporary masculinity, then girls have to manage themselves as both masculine and feminine in order to succeed in these games.
Food Poisoning: Surplus and Suffering in Contemporary Children’s Film
Authors: Sawers Naarah , Parsons Elizabeth
Published: January 2022

Animated films like 'The Lion King', 'Stuart Little', 'Shark Tale' and 'The Incredibles' are considered in relation to representations of hunger and especially of bodies marked by hunger. It is argued that the interplay of food and power in these films construct regimes of power, which inexorably privilege white, masculine and middleclass bodies.
Education, State and Agency in Dystopian Children’s Texts
Authors: Aitken Margaret , Bradford Clare , Massey Geraldine
Published: January 2022

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‘When I was a child I thought as a child ...’: The Importance of Memory in Constructions of Childhood and Social Order in a Selection of Post-disaster Fictions
Authors: Braithwaite Elizabeth
Published: January 2022

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This paper will analyse the construction of childhood in three post-disaster texts for young readers: Ruth Hooker’s Kennaquhair, Robert C. O’Brien’s Z for Zachariah, and Hugh Scott’s Why Weeps the Brogan?, exploring how the relationship between particular notions of childhood and memory are used to show protagonists’assumption of power and hence choice in how they respond to the social orders in which they find themselves. ‘Power’ has been defined in many ways, but I will use the definition which Roberta Trites draws from the work of Judith Butler: ‘Power is the force that allows for subjectivity and consequently, agency’ (Trites 2000, p.3). Whereas O’Brien’s and Scott’s novels place their protagonists in dystopian settings, Hooker’s Kennaquhair presents a small-scale utopia and implies a younger readership than do the other two texts, and I will argue that the utopia in this text can only work in narrative terms because the novel is aimed at children rather than young adults.
Performativity and the Child Who May Not be a Child
Authors: Stephens John
Published: January 2022

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Performativity, one of the most recent buzz words in literary studies, is a concept with complex origins, going back at least half a century. Some of the elements discussed under its rubric originate in the domain of theatre performance studies, while others are drawn from fields as diverse as anthropology, sociology, folklore, and cultural studies. An often free interchange between the terms performance and performativity is sustained by the simple fact that the verb to perform serves both nouns, so that while we can say that someone ‘performs Shakespeare’s Juliet’ or ‘performs femininity’, it is easy to overlook that the verb is being used in quite different senses. It is perhaps not surprising, then, that one of the most prominent theorists of performativity over the past fifteen years, Judith Butler, declared early on in her use of the term that performativity ‘consists in a reiteration of norms which precede, constrain, and exceed the performer and in that sense cannot be taken as the fabrication of the performer’s “will” or “choice” .... The reduction of performativity to performance would be a mistake’ (Butler 1993, p.234).
Over Her Dead Body: Expelling the Monstrous-Feminine in Touching Earth Lightly
Authors: James Kathryn
Published: January 2022

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Death and sex/uality are inextricably linked in the Western cultural imagination. The French slang term for ‘orgasm’ (la petite mort) is said to literally translate as ‘little death’, for instance, while the ‘sex-leading-to-death’ motif is pervasive in narrative and aesthetic representations. Although not always consciously articulated, throughout history the most fundamental taboos on human behaviour have also been those concerned with death and sexual functions (McNay 1994, p.41). Much of the work of cultural theorists Sigmund Freud, Georges Bataille and Julia Kristeva intersects around this idea as well. Freudian psychoanalytic theory is based upon the notion that the psychic life of the subject is governed by two antagonistic biological or instinctual urges—one toward reproduction, and the other toward destruction. In Bataille’s view, the framework of the law that shapes the subject (the processes of socialisation) is associated with the expulsion of the ‘accursed share’—that portion of the self that is bodily and material: forbidden eroticism (incest), excrement, and death (the return to material nature of human life) (Rivkin & Ryan 1998, p.337). An ‘aura of death is what denotes passion’, Bataille contends (1986, p.20) because at the same time that humanity pushes death away by trying to exclude what is horrifying, it is drawn (or desires) to approach what threatens (Hegarty 2000, pp.61-62).2 Kristeva makes a similar claim when she argues that erotic pleasure emerges as a symbolic response to the uncontainable threat of mortality. For Kristeva, the erotic is both a reaction to the threat of castration and an attempt to sustain life itself in the face of death (Tanner 1996).
Just Telling It Like It Is? Representations of Teenage Fatherhood in Contemporary Western Young Adult Fiction
Authors: Gill Michele
Published: January 2022

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The word “father” scares the life out of me. How can I be a father at sixteen, seventy miles away from a girl I hardly know and a baby I’ve never seen?
(Reckless 2002, p.160)
Baby hands. Warm, sweet-smelling baby hands. And all I can do is kiss them and pull her closer so she won’t see my face and how scared I am.
When there’s nothing you can do, do nothing.
But then I realize. I’ve done it. I know something. I know something about this little thing that is my baby. I know that she needs me. I know what she does when she just needs me.
(The First Part Last 2003, p.15)
The above quotations offer two fictional representations of teenage boys, both boys are afraid of ‘fatherhood’, worried about whether they can, or actually want to, take on the role. However, their fears are subtly different. In Reckless (Mayfield, 2002), Josh has yet to meet his new born son, Sam, and so his concerns centre around his perception of a cultural understanding of what it means to be a father. He perceives his youth, non-resident status and consequently, lack of ability to provide, as absolute barriers to his role as a ‘good’ father. Bobby in The First Part Last (Johnson, 2003) is sole carer to his daughter, ‘Feather’, after complications during the birth leave his girlfriend Nia in an irreversible coma. Billy is fearful of his inadequacy in meeting the daily needs of his daughter in terms of the emotional strength which this demands from him. However, he comes to realize that the deep bonds which exist between them make him a parent in ways which cannot be articulated through language and are beyond social discourses regulating ‘good’ or ‘bad’ ways of being a father.
Spirits, Miracles and Clauses: Economy, Patriarchy and Childhood in Popular Christmas Texts
Authors: Saltmarsh Sue
Published: January 2022

In this paper I explore the notion of childhood as it is re/configured in Christmas texts through the discursive frames of industrialisation and global capitalism. Through a poststructuralist analysis of three Christmas texts from the 1840s, 1940s and 1990s, I map discursive shifts in the ways that children and childhood are constructed in relation to the discourses of capitalist societies. Three texts are examined in detail: A Christmas Carol, published by Charles Dickens in 1843; the 1947 version of the film, Miracle on 34th Street; and the 1999 Walt Disney film, The Santa Clause. While these texts provide only a small sample from the thousands of texts available, their commercial success and sustained popular appeal makes them particularly significant sites of analysis. Dickens' text is widely considered 'the most often repeated and imitated secular Christmas story of all' (Belk 2005, p.18), which has itself 'become sacred Christmas literature' (Belk 2005, p. 19). The success of Miracle on 34th Street led to several remakes for television audiences, with major motion picture remakes released in 1973 and again in 1994, while The Santa Clause the role credited with launching actor Tim Allen from a successful television career into a string of Hollywood blockbuster films won the 1995 People's Choice Award (USA) for Favourite Comedy Motion Picture, and was followed by sequels in 2002 and 2006 (IMDb, 2007). When considered together, these three popular, enduring and commercially successful texts illustrate some of the ways in which cultural texts are implicated in constructing children, over time, as particular kinds of economic subjects.
In the Same Boat: National Identity and Taiwanese Picture Books
Authors: Huang Hui-Ling
Published: January 2022

The publication and marketing of picture books in Taiwan is studied by examining the effects of globalisation in the publishing industry and considering the effects of multiculturalism as reflected in picture books provided for young readers. Three Taiwanese picture books 'The Mouse Bride' (Chang and Liu, 1994); 'Guji Guj' (Chen, 2004a, b.); and 'Cherry Blossom Fairies' (Yan and Chang, 2003) are analysed by building on the theoretical insights of critical multiculturalism and post-modern multiculturalism, to study the way they have approached national identity.
Children in Detention: Juvenile Authors Recollect Refugee Stories
Authors: Helff Sissy
Published: January 2022

'Dark Dreams: Australian Refugee Stories by Young Writers aged 11-20 Years', which is considered as one of the most original literary attempts made to grapple with the overwhelming number of often untold and nameless refugee stories in Australia, is discussed. Two short texts which cover the war and migration zones of Vietnam and Afghanistan, and are biographical accounts which differ in genre and style are considered for discussion.
‘A little child shall lead them’: Tasmanian and Victorian School Readers and National Growth
Authors: McGennisken Jane
Published: January 2022

Reading, one of the ‘three Rs’ still fundamental to educational theory and reconceptualisations of literacy teaching and learning, is a complex socio-cultural practice. Recent attacks on critical literacy approaches to teaching English reveal that what children are taught to read, and how they are taught to read it, is value-laden and contentious (Slattery 2005, p.31). Critics argue for a ‘back to basics’ approach to teaching a love of reading, a reaction to the ‘postmodern literary theory [that] has infiltrated our schools at the expense of comprehension and expression’ (ibid). Yet these same critics appear unaware that the link between children’s literature and ideology was both recognised by, and institutionalised in, Australian school textbooks of nearly 80 years ago. Indeed, in the 1928 preface to the eighth book, the first of the Victorian Readers to be published, the editorial committee was explicit in its intended literary production of young Australians.
‘You molded me like clay’: David Almond’s Sexualised Monsters
Authors: Sawers Naarah
Published: January 2022

Monsters and the Gothic fiction that creates them are therefore technologies, narrative technologies that produce the perfect figure for negative identity. Monsters have to be everything the human is not and, in producing the negative of the human, these novels make way for the invention of human as white, male, middle-class, and heterosexual. (Halberstam, 1995, p.22).

Something unusual is happening in some of the most well-regarded, contemporary British children’s fiction. David Almond and Neil Gaiman are investing their stories with a seemingly contemporary feminist agenda, but one that is profoundly troubled by psychoanalytic discourses that disrupt the narratives’ overt excursions into a potentially positive gender re-acculturation of child audiences. Their books often show that girls can be strong and intelligent while boys can be sensitive, but the burgeoning sexual identities of the child protagonists appear to be incompatible with the new wave of gendered equity these stories ostensibly seek. In a recent collaborative essay with two of my colleagues teaching children’s literature at Deakin University, Australia, we considered the postfeminism of ‘other mothers’ and their fraught relationships with daughters in Neil Gaiman’s stories Coraline and The Mirror Mask (forthcoming). While Almond’s Skellig(1998) and Clay (2006) ostensibly tell very different fantastic tales, the differences, on closer inspection, seem only to relate to the gender of the protagonists. Gaiman’s girls and Almond’s boys undertake an identical Oedipal quest for heteronormative success, and in doing so reverse the politically correct bids for gender equality made on their narrative surfaces. When read through a psychoanalytical lens, the narratives also undo all the potential transformations of gendered politics made possible through the authors’ employment of magical realism that could offer manifold ways to disrupt binary oppositions. Indeed, that all four stories rely on the blurring of fantasy and reality might be more telling still about the ambivalence with which feminism is tolerated and/or advanced in a progressive nation like Britain. In such a culture the theoretical premise of equality is acceptable, but strange fantasies emerge in response, and gender difference is rearticulated.
Peter, Potter, Rabbits, Robbers
Authors: Lovell-Smith Rose
Published: January 2022

Critical discourses about realism and fantasy in children's literature have in the past included discussion of the merits, and demerits, of these conventions as they differently engage child readers. Beatrix Potter's works, situated at an intersection of the two literary conventions, seem to me rather to invite a useful complication of the distinction commonly made between them. Potter is clearly a fantasist. Yet aspects of her work support a scholarly tendency to claim her for realism, and this is often done by connecting Potter's life and works. In this essay I join those who have turned Potter studies towards investigating the cultural and literary contexts within which she worked.
De-Colonising Shakespeare?: Agency and (Masculine) Authority in Gregory Rogers’s The Boy, The Bear, The Baron, The Bard
Authors: Hateley Erica
Published: January 2022

Although Said is writing about literal geographies here as well as cultural mappings of them, I open with his claims in order to initiate my consideration of the ways in which 'Shakespeare' as a discourse (Freedman 1989, p.245) and Shakespeare's historical and geographical contexts have been made over into culturally-contested terrain within contemporary children's literature for the purposes of constructing and controlling social space and subjectivities. Historically, both the discourse of 'Shakespeare' and the depiction of William Shakespeare as a character have been deployed as structuring logics for narratives about the inherent value of Shakespeare, and in turn, for discussions of not just the legitimacy but the necessity of young people's subordination of self to Shakespeare. Gregory Rogers's 'The Boy, The Bear, The Baron, The Bard' (2004) not only participates in that tradition of children's literature which deploys Shakespeare as a colonising discourse but also disrupts the norms of the tradition in two important ways.
Post-disaster Fiction for Young Adults: Some Trends and Variations
Authors: Braithwaite Elizabeth
Published: January 2022

Taking as its central question: 'What narrative functions does the disaster in young adult postdisaster fiction have?', this paper explores how the genre is utilised to make comment on a range of issues, and argues that there are three connected sub-genres within young adult post-disaster fiction, with the disaster having a different function in each, and the nature of the comments made by each of these sub-genres tending also to be different. Stephens considers that: 'The main distinguishing feature of the genre is that its texts are set in a fantasy future which exists some time after the world we know has been destroyed by a cataclysmic disaster, usually caused by human actions' (1992, p.126). This paper broadens this definition to include texts in which the disaster actually happens but in which the focus is on life after the disaster. It understands fantasy to include speculative fiction which seeks to portray pre-disaster life as similar to the implied young adult reader's, as well as works of high fantasy in which the disaster has made Earth into a kind of secondary world (see Sands 1998, p.232), and focuses on novels in which the disaster has clearly been caused by humans in some way.
‘Carnival’: More than a jolly name: Margaret Mahy’s The Tricksters and Mikhail Bakhtin’s Carnival Theory
Authors: Puetz Babette
Published: January 2022

The distinctiveness and use of the name Carnival by Margaret Mahy in her novels 'The Tricksters' and Mikhail Bakhtin in his novel 'Carnival Theory' is discussed. Looking at carnivalesque elements in the two novels does help to interpret the novels in a better way.
Tiny Leaf Men and Other Tales From Outer Suburbia: Re-Presenting the Suburb in Australian Children’s Literature.
Authors: Oliver Kelly
Published: January 2022

This paper explores how, through word and image, Tan’s Tales From Outer Suburbia challenges stereotypical representations of the suburban. Typically, suburban spaces have been represented as aesthetically bland, mundane, and ornamental. Tan takes these tropes and ironically re-deploys them anew, and in doing so undermines anti-suburban sentiment, which has dominated Australian literary and popular culture.

Although the notion of anti-suburbanism in Australian fiction has been well documented, its presence in children’s literature has received far less attention. As a case study, Tales From Outer Suburbia, signals the ability of children’s literature to present more positive representations of suburbia because of its inherent commitment to the socialisation of children, which is prioritised over the tradition of anti-suburbanism.
Fear, Voice, and the Environment in Sonya Hartnett’s Forest and The Midnight Zoo
Authors: Hawkes Lesley Kathryn
Published: January 2022

Subtle is not a word that is normally associated with Sonya Hartnett’s style. Rather, she is known for her stark, bold approach. However, when it comes to the Australian environment, Hartnett is indeed subtle in her approach. Hartnett has set in play a new, almost posthumanist style of writing about the nonhuman. The Australian landscape and environment has always figured prominently in Australian literature for both adults and children but Hartnett has taken this writing in a totally different direction. This article looks at two of Hartnett's novels, Forest and The Midnight Zoo, and examines how Hartnett offers new and exciting avenues of thought regarding the place of humans in that environment.
The Historical-Cultural Value of the Juvenile Collection: The McLaren Collection at the University of Melbourne and its Girls’ Books
Authors: Lowe Bronwyn Margaret
Published: January 2022

In the last fifty years special collections of children’s books have received increasing attention from scholars who have started to realise the value of these books as literary and historical documents. Collections of children’s books in academic libraries across the world1 provide a sampling of the types of books children would have read in a particular period or country. The McLaren Collection of children’s books, held in the Baillieu Library at the University of Melbourne, is valuable for its varied range of children’s books. This important collection was assembled by Ian McLaren (1912- 2000), a chartered accountant and Member of Parliament who also took a particular interest in book collecting during his long and varied career. His collection comprises over 50,000 items on Australian politics, history and literature. While the majority of his collection is held by the Baillieu Library, the National Library of Australia holds his collection of local histories, church histories, business histories and organizational histories. Approximately 5000 books in the McLaren collection were classified by him as children’s books, and they are all held at the Baillieu Library.
This article will consider the importance of collections of children’s books in the university library generally, and why they can be of use to scholars. It will then address the McLaren collection specifically, creating a small sampling of girls’ books from the collection to discuss the sort of books Australian girls would have been reading in the first half of the twentieth century, and the views and values that authors of this period wanted to pass on to girls. These will be used to address a broader discussion of the historical-cultural value of girls’ books in the collection.
Twentieth Century Literature and Publishing Archives: UK Research Perspectives on Children’s Literature
Authors: Berry Charlotte
Published: January 2022

British children’s literature during the 20th century has a robust pedigree and reputation, with many internationally acclaimed authors and texts included within its realm. However, publishing archives and children’s literature archives have a low profile and use in the UK in both curatorial and research terms, resulting in huge untapped potential for researchers. Little has been published about modern publishing and children’s literature archives, and this paper seeks to begin to address this gap within the current academic discourse.

This article is intended to constitute a starting point for those wishing to engage in study in this particular area of research by providing a contextual and historical background to the provenance and accessibility of 20th century literary and publishing archives in the UK. This paper is based on current PhD research into the translation of Nordic children’s literature in the UK, combining academic interests in children’s literature and publishing history with professional expertise in the curation of literary and business archive collections.
Collections of the Swiss Institute for Children’s and Youth Media and their Public Access
Authors: Meyer Roger
Published: January 2022

The Swiss Institute for Children’s and Youth Media, Schweizerisches Institut für Kinder- und Jugendmedien (SIKJM), an associated institute of the University of Zurich and the Swiss section of IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People), accommodates the only documentation centre of Switzerland, which collects children's literature and secondary literature of a wide range, with historical and contemporary interest. The main activities of the institute are research and documentation in the field of children’s and youth media and reading promotion. It cooperates with similar institutions in other European countries.
Growing up Australian: The National Imaginary in School Readers
Authors: McGennisken Jane
Published: January 2022

During the first half of the twentieth century, School Readers were intended to propagate a national imagination. The symbolic association of the child and the nation is instrumental in this regard. Indeed, such an association is a familiar element in Australian children’s literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Invested in the innocence of the young and the child’s naïve adventurous spirit is the potential of a new nation. The sacredness associated with the figure of the child, in Western thinking more broadly, and in School Readers specifically, circulates around the child figure’s naturalised innocence. This paper considers the Readers’ literary and visual production of the child/nation. These school reading books present C. E. W. Bean’s Anzac prototype in ‘The Youngster’, but also, in performing anxieties about a preferred story of national growth, include stark illustrations of dead, abandoned and lost children. Where the child is read metonymically for the nation; the child is contradictorily asked to embody innocence (and therefore vulnerability) at the same time he or she appears confidently assured about the future.
Lu Rees Archives of Australian Children’s Literature
Authors: Alderman Belle
Published: January 2022

A modest idea can achieve extraordinary results where there is vision and resolve. This was the case with the Lu Rees Archives of Australian Children’s Literature. In 2011, an external expert assessed the significance of the Archives, reporting that in its 40-year existence, ‘it has established a firm reputation among researchers, students, bibliographers, librarians and the general public as one of the most important collections of children’s literature in Australia’ (Powell, 2011, p.1).
Gay Subversion: Young Men Seeking Safety in Heterotopic Spaces
Authors: Mountney Peter
Published: January 2022

In the early years of the twenty-first century gay-themed texts with teenage protagonists are moving from being an isolated subgenre to becoming a more integrated part of this field of writing and viewing. Even though there is now more visible support for gay adolescents than previously, coming to terms with an emerging gay sexuality and deciding whether or not to declare that sexuality publicly with the inherent risk of marginalisation and loss of family and friends remains central to current gay-themed texts. For boys, the path to manhood can be a journey fraught with challenges but even more so for gay boys who must contend with the forces of ‘hegemonic’ (heterosexual) masculinities and the pressures to ‘do boy’ according to socially-sanctioned rules and norms. This article examines the ways the gay protagonists in three Young Adult novels—Leave Myself Behind by Bart Yates (2003), A Time Before Me by Michael Peronne (2005) and Sushi Central by Alasdair Duncan (2003)—and in two films— Prayers for Bobby (2009) and Geography Club (2013)—seek safety in heterotopic spaces. It is argued that heterotopias can provide safe spaces for the expression of same-sex desire among males, subverting the constraints of hegemonic masculinity and the large spatial sites in which they operate. The trope of ‘safe space’ can be used as a mechanism to segregate individuals who challenge the heterosexual/homosexual binary under the guise of providing for their safety. However, while safe spaces are mechanisms for the construction of gay identity, they can also generate homophobic retribution. Struggles for visible identities outside of safe spaces can incite violence when gay visibility threatens the normalised landscape.
Promoting Environmentalism across Media: The Child Figures of The Lorax
Authors: Yang Lichung
Published: January 2022

In The Sense of Wonder, first published in July 1956, Rachel Carson describes the awe at the beauty of nature she and her young nephew enjoy along the coast of Maine, USA. She suggests that a child needs an adult with whom to share the wonders of nature. ‘If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder,’ writes Carson, ‘he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in’ (p. 55). She also urges adults to explore nature with feelings and emotions, to use all their senses, and to abandon the impulse to teach or explain. ‘For the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him,’ she states, ‘it is not half so important to know as to feel’ (p. 56). Carson is convinced that it is ‘more important to pave the way for the child to want to know than to put him on a diet of facts he is not ready to assimilate’ (p. 56).
Give, give; be always giving’: Children, Charity and China, 1890-1939
Authors: Chen Shih-Wen Sue
Published: January 2022

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Before he reveals the answer to the riddle, nine-year-old Matty Bryan asks his father for a penny and his mother and grandmother for a halfpenny each. He then takes out his new missionary-box, explaining that the money is for ‘black people, to buy them Bibles, and to send them preachers to tell them about God, and how they’re to get to heaven; and Mr. Graham [his teacher] said that it was the same as giving them the Bread of life’ ( Elliott 1872, p. 17). This scene from Emily Elliott’s novella Matty’s Hungry Missionary-Box and the Message It Brought (1872) is an example of the creative ways children in nineteenth-century Britain were depicted as engaging in charity. Although not everyone agreed with the value of foreign missions, by the mid-nineteenth century, missionary societies such as the London Missionary Society (LMS, established 1795) and the Church Missionary Society (CMS, established 1799) had placed missionary boxes like Matty’s in many homes, and children were taught to donate regularly (Cox 2008, p. 97). According to historian Frank Prochaska ‘[n]owhere in the charitable world did the young play a more important part than in the evangelical missionary movement’ (1978, p. 103). While it is impossible to provide exact figures for the amount of money Victorian children raised for missionary societies, it was a significant amount . The funds raised supported missionary ships, paid for specific cots in hospitals, and sponsored ‘native teacher[s]’ (Prochaska 1978, p. 107; Thorne 1999, p. 126; Elleray 2011, pp. 229-230). In the early twentieth century, children were told that for one penny a week, they could help support the LMS’s eighty-three missionaries in China who were involved in the work of ‘leper asylums, training homes, orphanages and schools for both boys and girls’ (J.M.B. [c 1900], p. 15).
Foreword
Authors: Eaton Anthony
Published: January 2022

The editorial team and I are pleased to be able to bring you this new edition of Papers: Explorations into Children’s Literature which, after more than twenty years under the stewardship of Professors Clare Bradford and Kerry Mallan, has recently moved to a new home with a new editorial team.
Humanitarianism at home
Authors: McAvoy Daniel , Ingram Annalise , Bearup Luke
Published: January 2022

Australia has faced various unprecedented challenges in recent years: the extended bushfire season of 2019–20, wide-spread and increasingly severe storms and flooding, and the grave health and socio-economic impacts of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Such events have prompted greater awareness of our shared vulnerability to disasters. They have also exacerbated food insecurity, homelessness, poverty, family violence, and increased the vulnerability of refugees and people seeking asylum in Australia. Where disasters and similar issues are identified in low-income countries, they are typically framed in terms of humanitarian need and may even be the subject of international humanitarian action. Why is it then, that the language and practices of humanitarianism are not ordinarily applied in Australian settings? What indeed is humanitarianism when it is not international? What, if anything, do international experiences of humanitarianism have to offer in Australian contexts? This paper describes a research program that has been prompted by these questions and shares some preliminary findings concerning the perspectives of Australian practitioners on the relevance of humanitarian values, knowledge, and practices in Australia.
Evaluating Stimulation Effectiveness with Permanent Optical Fiber and Sealed Wellbore Pressure Monitoring: Bakken Case Study
Authors: Cipolla Craig , McKimmy Michael , Hari-Roy Stephanie , Wolters Jennifer , Haffener Jackson , Haustveit Kyle , Almasoodi Mouin
Published: January 2022

In 2019 the operator embarked on a data acquisition project in the Bakken, with the goal of mapping far-field drainage and characterizing completion performance. The project consisted of a six-well pad (10,000 ft laterals) with a dedicated observation lateral located in the Three Forks (TF) formation instrumented with cemented pressure gauges and external optical fiber along the 10,000 ft lateral. The observation lateral was offset by Middle Bakken (MB) wells ~450 ft on either side (~900 ft MB-MB well spacing). One of the offset MB wells was instrumented with external optical fiber for cluster-level completion measurements and "frac hit" detection.

Characterizing hydraulic fracture geometry is critical to improving completion designs and optimizing well spacing. Until recently, microseismic has been the primary diagnostic for estimating "bulk" or stage-level fracture geometry and parent-child interactions for modern multi-cluster plug-and-perf completions. However, microseismic cannot provide details on individual fractures or cluster-level measurements. With the continued advances in fiber optic technologies, we can now measure cluster level fracture behavior at the wellbore and in the far-field. Characterizing the relationship between wellbore and far-field fracture geometry, referred to as fracture morphology, is important when simultaneously optimizing completion design and well spacing. Microseismic and fiber optics are very robust, but expensive, technologies and this limits the frequency of their application. Recently developed low-cost pressure-based technologies enable high-volume data acquisition but may not provide the same level of detail compared to microseismic and fiber optic measurements.

This paper presents a case history that details the application of permanent fiber optics and Sealed Wellbore Pressure Monitoring (SWPM) to characterize fracture geometry and morphology using Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) for near-wellbore (NWB) measurements along with SWPM and cross-well strain for far-field investigation.

This is the first example of both NWB, and far-field optical fiber measurements being used to evaluate cluster efficiency in conjunction with SWPM. The SWPM results compared favorably to the fiber measurements; stages with more uniform distribution based on the NWB DAS data also had higher Volume to First Responses (VFRs) measured using cross-well strain and SWPM.
Estimating Fracture Containment in Layered Formations Using 3D Fracture Growth Assumptions
Authors: Pandey Vibhas J. , Vamegh Rasouli
Published: January 2022

Fracture growth in layered formations where the stresses and rock mechanical properties change frequently with depth is of great interest to researchers, especially when estimating the vertical growth of fractures in hydraulic fracturing treatments. The influence of formation stresses on fracture growth has been well documented and supported by numerous case histories, but the height-growth limitations resulting from intersection and crossing of various interfaces by the fracture continues to be investigated. This paper describes a model and a method to predict potential locations where a horizontal fracture can develop and limit the vertical growth of the fracture.

Most height growth predictions using traditional pseudo-3D (P3D) models result in planar fractures of widths that vary depending on the stresses and mechanical property of the layers that the fracture crosses. As evinced from the literature and laboratory experiments, the propagating cracks may have a three-dimensional (3D) characteristic given the observed combination of deviation (kinking) and out-of-plane displacements that can hinder the vertical growth. Multiple flaws leading to a 3D crack can be approximated as a two-dimensional (2D) model by considering it as a mixed boundary value triple pressurized-crack problem. In this paper, such representations are first used to obtain discrete stress intensity factors (SIF) at specific locations, and then, are superimposed on routine SIFs to include the influence of real-world 3D cracks on vertical growth estimation.

Fracture width profiles across several layers were generated using a modified equilibrium height growth model and were key to identifying the regions where complex growth in layered formations could potentially exist. These predictions resemble the analog for 3D fractures and given the fact that a portion of the treatment was injected at pressures that exceeded the overburden, alludes to the presence of a horizontal fracture component. Micro-seismic survey from the treatment shows vertical growth containment at the location where minimal width is projected. Three cases histories where these observations were made are also presented in the paper along with pertinent theory and explanations.

The model developed in the study is helpful in predicting potential locations where a horizontal fracture can develop and limit the vertical growth or even curtail the extension of the main fracture. The method developed in the study requires discrete layered formation and fluid properties such as stresses, rock moduli, SIFs, leakoff, and fracturing fluid rheology, as the only inputs, and hence can be applied to a variety of examples worldwide.
Lessons Learned from the Large-Scale CO2 Stimulation of 11 Unconventional Wells in the Williston Basin: A Practical Review of Operations, Logistics, Production Uplift, and CO2 Storage
Authors: Ribeiro Lionel , Thoma Ashley , Bryant Jason , Sundararajan Desikan , Zurovec Wesley
Published: January 2022

The paper introduces the results of the first CO2 fracturing campaign conducted in the Williston Basin. From 2015 to 2019, 11 horizontal multi-stage wells were safely stimulated using a CO2-hybrid design to improve production and store CO2 underground. The fracturing design consisted of the injection of a super-critical CO2 pre-pad (with a target injected volume of 5,000 tons per well) followed by a traditional slickwater or hybrid proppant slurry. The CO2 was captured from point-source plants that would have released the CO2 to the atmosphere otherwise.

The performance of the CO2 fracturing design is compared to the performance of nearby hybrid and slickwater designs. The paper provides a range of potential production uplift for both 12-month production and EUR. The paper also provides the range of CO2 concentrations produced back to the surface and an estimate of CO2 storage potential based on extensive compositional monitoring.

The paper shares practical guidelines and recommendations to facilitate the understanding and logistics of CO2 operations during injection and production. The field study highlights critical considerations related to fracturing design, logistics, operational handling of CO2, reservoir uplift, and permanent CO2 storage potential. The analysis provides new insight to the storage potential for CO2 fracturing, EOR, and/or carbon capture and storage (CCS) applications in the Williston Basin, and by extension to other ultra-tight formations.