The Reception of Ancient Greece and Rome in Children’s Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Reception of Ancient Greece and Rome in Children’s Literature write by . This book was released on 2015-09-07. The Reception of Ancient Greece and Rome in Children’s Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Greece and Rome have long featured in books for children and teens, whether through the genres of historical fiction, fantasy, mystery stories or mythological compendiums. These depictions and adaptations of the Ancient World have varied at different times, however, in accordance with changes in societies and cultures. This book investigates the varying receptions and ideological manipulations of the classical world in children’s literature. Its subtitle, Heroes and Eagles, reflects the two most common ways in which this reception appears, namely in the forms of the portrayal of the Greek heroic world of classical mythology on the one hand, and of the Roman imperial presence on the other. Both of these are ideologically loaded approaches intended to educate the young reader.
Classical Reception and Children's Literature
Classical Reception and Children's Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Classical Reception and Children's Literature write by Owen Hodkinson. This book was released on 2018-01-30. Classical Reception and Children's Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reception studies have transformed the classics. Many more literary and cultural texts are now regarded as 'valid' for classical study. And within this process of widening, children's literature has in its turn emerged as being increasingly important. Books written for children now comprise one of the largest and most prominent bodies of texts to engage with the classical world, with an audience that constantly changes as it grows up. This innovative volume wrestles with that very characteristic of change which is so fundamental to children's literature, showing how significant the classics, as well as classically-inspired fiction and verse, have been in tackling the adolescent challenges posed by metamorphosis. Chapters address such themes as the use made by C S Lewis, in The Horse and his Boy, of Apuleius' The Golden Ass; how Ovidian myth frames the Narnia stories; classical 'nonsense' in Edward Lear; Pan as a powerful symbol of change in children's literature, for instance in The Wind in the Willows; the transformative power of the Orpheus myth; and how works for children have handled the teaching of the classics.
A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology
A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology write by Vanda Zajko. This book was released on 2017-04-10. A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology presents a collection of essays that explore a wide variety of aspects of Greek and Roman myths and their critical reception from antiquity to the present day. Reveals the importance of mythography to the survival, dissemination, and popularization of classical myth from the ancient world to the present day Features chronologically organized essays that address different sets of myths that were important in each historical era, along with their thematic relevance Features chronologically organized essays that address different sets of myths that were important in each historical era, along with their thematic relevance Offers a series of carefully selected in-depth readings, including both popular and less well-known examples
Our Mythical Childhood... The Classics and Literature for Children and Young Adults
Our Mythical Childhood... The Classics and Literature for Children and Young Adults - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Our Mythical Childhood... The Classics and Literature for Children and Young Adults write by . This book was released on 2016-11-01. Our Mythical Childhood... The Classics and Literature for Children and Young Adults available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The Classics and Children's Literature between West and East a team of contributors from different continents offers a survey of the reception of Classical Antiquity in children’s and young adults’ literature by applying regional perspectives.
Topologies of the Classical World in Children's Fiction
Topologies of the Classical World in Children's Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Topologies of the Classical World in Children's Fiction write by Claudia Nelson. This book was released on 2019-10. Topologies of the Classical World in Children's Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Beginning with Rudyard Kipling and Edith Nesbit and concluding with best-selling series still ongoing at the time of writing, this volume examines works of twentieth- and twenty-first-century children's literature that incorporate character types, settings, and narratives derived from the Greco-Roman past. Drawing on a cognitive poetics approach to reception studies, it argues that authors typically employ a limited and powerful set of spatial metaphors - palimpsest, map, and fractal - to organize the classical past for preteen and adolescent readers. Palimpsest texts see the past as a collection of strata in which each new era forms a layer superimposed upon a foundation laid earlier; map texts use the metaphor of the mappable journey to represent a protagonist's process of maturing while gaining knowledge of the self and/or the world; fractal texts, in which small parts of the narrative are thematically identical to the whole, present the past in a way that implies that history is infinitely repeatable. While a given text may embrace multiple metaphors in presenting the past, associations between dominant metaphors, genre, and outlook emerge from the case studies examined in each chapter, revealing remarkable thematic continuities in how the past is represented and how agency is attributed to protagonists: each model, it is suggested, uses the classical past to urge and thus perhaps to develop a particular approach to life.
