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The reception of ancient Greece and Rome in children's literature : heroes and eagles /
Greece and Rome have long featured in books for children and teens, whether through the genres of historical fiction, fantasy, mystery stories or mythological compendiums. These depictions and adaptations of the Ancient World have varied at different times, however, in accordance with changes in soc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2015.
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| Colección: | Metaforms ;
v. 6. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Reception of Ancient Greece and Rome in Children's Literature: Heroes and Eagles; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Children, Greece and Rome: Heroes and Eagles; PART 1: Classics and Ideology in Children's Literature; 1: Classics, Children's Literature, and the Character of Childhood, from Tom Brown's Schooldays to The Enchanted Castle; 2: 'Time is only a mode of thought, you know': Ancient History, Imagination and Empire in E. Nesbit's Literature for Children.
- 3: (De)constructing Arcadia: Polish Struggles with History and Differing Colours of Childhood in the Mirror of Classical MythologyPART 2: Ancient Mythology, Modern Authors; 4: The Metanarrative of Picture Books: 'Reading' Greek Myth for (and to) Children; 5: Reading the Fiction of Video Games; 6: From Chiron to Foaly: The Centaur in Classical Mythology and Fantasy Literature; 7: Classical Memories in C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia; PART 3: Classical Mythology for Children; 8: Men into Pigs: Circe's Transformations in Versions of The Odyssey for Children.
- 9: Chasing Odysseus in Twenty-First-Century Children's Fiction10: The Metamorphosis of Ovid in Retellings of Myth for Children; PART 4: Ancient Rome for Children; 11: The "Grand Tour" as Transformative Experience in Children's Novels about the Roman Invasion; 12: "Wulf the Briton": Resisting Rome in a 1950s British Boys' Adventure Strip; 13: Bridging the Gap between Generations: Astérix between Child and Adult, Classical and Modern; Bibliography; Index.