Retelling Stories, Framing Culture : Traditional Story and Metanarratives in Children's Literature.
What happens to traditional stories when they are retold in another time and cultural context and for a different audience? This first-of-its-kind study discusses Bible stories, classical myths, heroic legends, Arthurian romances, Robin Hood lore, folk tales, 'oriental' tales, and other st...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Pre-texts, metanarratives, and the western methaethic
- Authority, wisdom, and cultural heritage: biblical literature as pre-text
- Classical mythology: the mystery underlying everyday things?
- Distinction, individuality, sociality: patterns for a heroic life
- An affirmation of civilization against barbarism: Arthur and Arthurianism in medievalist and quasi-medieval romance
- The boys in the Greenwood: stories of Robin Hood
- Folktale and metanarratives of female agency
- The idea of the orient: stories and motifs from the Arabian Nights
- Reversions of early modern classics.