Celtic Myth in Contemporary Childrens Fantasy (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
305
Utgivningsdatum
2017-03-10
Upplaga
1st ed. 2017
Förlag
Palgrave Macmillan
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Bibliographie 10 farbige Abbildungen
Illustrationer
11 Illustrations, black and white; XIII, 305 p. 11 illus.
Dimensioner
210 x 148 x 19 mm
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531 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
1 Hardback
ISBN
9781137552815

Celtic Myth in Contemporary Childrens Fantasy

Idealization, Identity, Ideology

av Dimitra Fimi
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2017-03-10
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Runner-up of the Katherine Briggs Folklore Award 2017 Winner of the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth & Fantasy Studies 2019 This book examines the creative uses of Celtic myth in contemporary fantasy written for children or young adults from the 1960s to the 2000s. Its scope ranges from classic childrens fantasies such as Lloyd Alexanders The Chronicles of Prydain and Alan Garners The Owl Service, to some of the most recent, award-winning fantasy authors of the last decade, such as Kate Thompson (The New Policeman) and Catherine Fisher (Darkhenge). The book focuses on the ways these fantasy works have appropriated and adapted Irish and Welsh medieval literature in order to highlight different perceptions of Celticity. The term Celtic itself is interrogated in light of recent debates in Celtic studies, in order to explore a fictional representation of a national past that is often romanticized and political.
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It is a welcome study because it brings together a significant number of twentieth-century books for older children and adolescents so that patterns of usage of the pre-modern Celtic-language source texts become clear. Celtic Myth in Contemporary Childrens Fantasy is a well-researched and informative analysis, highly readable and a solid contribution to the study of the uses and misuses of myth in fantasy. (Jessica Hemming, Folklore, Vol. 130 (4), 2019)

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Dimitra Fimi is Senior Lecturer in English at Cardiff Metropolitan University, Wales, UK. Her monograph Tolkien, Race and Cultural History won the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inklings Studies. She is co-editor A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages. She lectures on fantasy, childrens literature, and medievalism.

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1.Introduction.- Part I. Irish Myth.- 2. Otherworldly Ireland.- 3. Celticity and the Irish Diaspora.- Part II. Welsh Myth.- 4. Lloyd Alexanders 'The Chronicles of Prydain'.- 5. Welsh Heritage for Teenagers.- 6. Susan Cooper and the Arthur of the Welsh.- 7. Conclusion.- Bibliography.- Index.

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