“Man for the Sword and for the Needle She”: Illustrations of Wendy's Role in J.M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy

A review of the illustrated editions of any text is likely to reveal differences as well as similarities, not only in terms of style and methods of production, but also in terms of the choices made by each illustrator. This article considers how the illustrators of J.M. Barrie's novel Peter and Wendy (1911) have responded to Wendy's role as mother, with particular emphasis on her skills as storyteller and needle-woman. Significantly, J.M. Barrie himself drew attention to these abilities with a design for a drop-curtain sampler for an early production of the play. A detailed comparison of three versions of the pivotal scene in which Wendy meets Peter for the first time and sews his shadow back on for him, reveals how Michael Foreman, Jan Ormerod and Paula Rego have produced quite different visual interpretations while remaining true to the text. The article also explores the possible significance of Barrie's own experiences of and views about parenting.     

权利贫困视角下的新市民信息障碍成因分析

信息障碍成为影响农转城新市民城市融入的一个重要因素.论文从社会权利的视角分析了新市民的信息障碍成因在于：土地权利贫困和社会保障权利贫困,社会公共基础设施建设不足引起的公共渠道贫乏,社会关系网络的贫困等.论文通过对这些障碍成因的分析,旨在为农转城过程中新市民的融入问题提供破解途径,使新市民共享主流社会信息资源及社会服务.     

A Hundred Years of Peter Pan

The centenary of the first performance of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan was celebrated in December 2004. Taking account of the various events in Britain to mark the occasion—newspaper articles, radio and television programmes, retrospects in the original theatre—this article examines the status and popularity of Peter Pan after a hundred years. The article traces the double story of Peter Pan—the play itself, and the biographical narrative of those events in Barrie’s life that led to and succeeded its creation—and examines the two recent films, Peter Pan (2003) and Finding Neverland (2004) as examples of fresh approaches to both life and work in the centenary year.Peter Hollindale retired in 1999 as Reader in English at the University of York. He edited ‘Peter Pan and Other Plays’, and an edition of ‘Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens’ and ‘Peter and Wendy’, both for the Oxford University Press World’s Classics series He is author of the critical study ’Signs of Childness in Children’s Books’.     

Two is the Beginning of the End: Peter Pan and the Doctrine of Reminiscence

This article considers J.M. Barrie’s satirical treatment of the Platonic doctrine of reminiscence in Peter Pan, and how Barrie’s work both honors and undercuts it. It will first analyze the Platonic notion of the doctrine of reminiscence in Wordsworth’s “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood” (1807). It will then show its influence on Victorian literature in the depiction of the exalted perception and moral purity of children, and how Barrie satirizes these ideals by underscoring the ignorance and savage qualities of the children in Peter Pan. The essay will also explore the portrayal of the Eden of childhood in Wordsworth’s poem (as influenced by Plato), and how Barrie subverts this utopia by presenting a dystopic world where Darwinian principles rule. Like Darwin, Barrie argues for a natural rather than a divine origin of species and demonstrates the struggle for existence in a profoundly disturbing way. Finally, the essay will contemplate the subject of immortality and how, far from being an idealized condition as in Wordsworth’s poetry, it is a far more ambivalent state in Peter Pan.