E-bok, Engelska, 2018

Classical Reception and Children's Literature

Greece, Rome and Childhood Transformation

Av Owen Hodkinson, Helen Lovatt

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2018-01-30
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 352
Filformat: PDF
Kopieringsskydd: LCP
ISBN: 9781786733290
Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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Owen Hodkinson is Associate Professor of Greek and Roman Cultures at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Authority and Tradition in Philostratus' Heroikos (2011) and of Metafiction in Classical Literature: The Invention of Self-Conscious Fiction (2017, forthcoming). Helen Lovatt is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Nottingham. Her books include Statius and Epic Games: Sport, Politics and Poetics in the Thebaid (2005), The Epic Gaze: Vision, Gender and Narrative in Ancient Epic (2013) and In Search of the Argonauts: The Remarkable History of Jason and the Golden Fleece (I.B.Tauris, forthcoming 2018).

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Innovative and instructive, this excellent collection includes contributions from an author of more than thirty books for young readers and others ... [and] several distinguished classicists ... this book is imaginatively conceived and edited with skill ... specialists in the reception of classical antiquity or in children's literature will find the collection worthwhile.

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