Subverting the genre?

[pippin_999]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, Barry Arrowsmith <arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:

> 
> So how is subversion accomplished, what needs to be changed?
> Well, before JKR there was DWJ -  Diana Wynne Jones. I say 'was' in a  
> comparative sense, she's still alive and kicking and doing very well,  
> thank you, particularly now that 'Howl's Moving Castle' has hit the  
> big screen. Author of getting on for 30 fantasies aimed at the  
> younger set, she was (and I understand still is for many) the doyen  
> of Brit fantasists. What she doesn't know about fantasy probably  
> ain't worth knowing. (I speak as an observer reporting common wisdom,  
> I've read none of her tales - hardly surprising since I've never been  
> addicted to the fantasy opiate.)

Pippin:
Before DWJ there was Barbara Ninde Byfield, who wrote The Book of Weird (also known as 
The Glass Harmonica) thirty years ago. 

If Lupin turns out to be ESE! no one will need to ask why JKR thinks her books subvert the 
genre. 

Pippin
inspired to visit Amazon and replace her copy, long since moldered into dust