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Classical Reception and Children's Literature - Greece, Rome and Childhood Transformation (Hardcover)
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Classical Reception and Children's Literature - Greece, Rome and Childhood Transformation (Hardcover)
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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.
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