Retelling Stories, Framing Culture : Traditional Story and Metanarratives in Children's Literature.

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stephens, John
Other Authors: McCallum, Robyn
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
Subjects:
Children's literature > History and criticism.
Children > Books and reading.
Enfants > Livres et lecture.
Children > Books and reading
Children's literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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