Learning to fail : the tragedy of T.H White’s romance fantasy the once and future king

• Main Author: Leong, Darryl Kah Ming
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/59868
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

When Cornelia Funke, best-selling author of teenage fantasy fiction, calls The Once and Future King (OFK) the “book of a lifetime”, she meant it in both senses of the phrase. To her, reading White’s novel was a unique and life-changing experience that planted the seeds for her eventual writing caree...