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 children's
fantasies such as Lloyd Alexander's The Chronicles of Prydain and
Alan Garner's 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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