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Bridges for the Young: The Fiction of Katherine Paterson

ed. M. Sarah Smedman & Joel D. Chaston Scarecrow Press, 2003.

Part 1: Bridges to the Reader: Narratology and Reader Response

"A Good Oyster": Story and Meaning in Jacob Have I Loved
-- M. Sarah Smedman
The Art of Self-Deceit: Narrative Strategies in Katherine Paterson's Novels
-- Maria Nikolayeva
Feminist Dialogics in Katherine Paterson's Novels
-- Roberta Seelinger Trites
Katherine Paterson's Ultimate Realism
-- Nancy Huse

Part 2: Bridges to Literary Worlds: Intertextuality and Literacy
Pine Groves and Public Parks: Katherine Paterson's "Secret Gardens"
--Joel D. Chaston
"We Can Still Hop" [sic]: Lyddie and Jip, His Story as Literacy Narratives
-- Linda Benson
Paterson and Park's Quest: Myth, Metaphor, Metonymy?
-- Nancy Huse
Bathrobes and Bibles, Waves and Words in Katherine Paterson's Jacob Have I Loved
-- James Holt McGavran

Part 3: Bridges to the World: Nature, History, and the Arts
Lost Garden: Glimpses of Eden in Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Katherine Paterson's Bridges to Terabithia and Jacob Have I Loved
-- Elizabeth Raum
A Reconciliation with Asia, Female, and Other: Regeneration of Masculinity in Park's Quest
-- Yoshida Junko
The Historical Authenticity of Lyddie and Jip, His Story
-- Laura Mandell Zaidman
Flute Solos and Songs That Make You Shatter: Simple Melodies in Katherine Paterson's Fiction
--Joel D. Chaston

Part 4: Bridges to the Soul: Theology and Philosophy
"In God's Delightful Company": Katherine Paterson's Feminist Theology
-- M. Sarah Smedman
"Forgive Them Their Trespasses": Christian Ethic and the Concept of Forgiveness in Katherine Paterson's Jacob Have I Loved and Preacher Boy
-- Karen Patricia Smith
To "Endure the Loss of Paradise": Katherine Paterson's Modernist Endings for a Postmodern World
-- Anita Tarr
The Hope of the Shared Burden: Paradigmatic Shifting in the Literary Folktales and Retellings of Katherine Paterson
-- Gary Schmidt

Part 5: Authorial Bridges
Building Bridges to the Young
-- Katherine Paterson
Katherine Paterson: An Annotated Bibliography
-- Carol Hanson Sibley