Our Mythical Hope : : The Ancient Myths as Medicine for the Hardships of Life in Children's and Young Adults' Culture / / Katarzyna Marciniak.
Classical Antiquity is a particularly important field in terms of "Hope studies" [...]. For centuries, the ancient tradition, and classical mythology in particular, has been a common reference point for whole hosts of creators of culture, across many parts of the world, and with the new me...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Warsaw : : University of Warsaw Press,, 2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Our mythical childhood
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (837 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Katarzyna Marciniak, What Is Mythical Hope in Children's and Young Adults' Culture? - or: Sharing the Light 11
- Notes on Contributors 47
- List of Figures 59
- Part I: Playing with the Past
- Véronique Dasen, Playing with Life Uncertainties in Antiquity 71
- Rachel Bryant Davies, "This Is the Modern Horse of Troy": The Trojan Horse as NineteenthCentury Children's Entertainment and Educational Analogy 89
- Part II: The Roots of Hope
- Katarzyna Jerzak, Myth and Suffering in Modern Culture: The Discursive Role of Myth from Oscar Wilde to Woodkid 131
- Marguerite Johnson, "For the Children": Children's Columns in Australian Newspapers during the Great War - Mythic Hope, or Mythic Indoctrination? 145
- Jan Kieniewicz, Bandar-Log in Action: The Polish Children's Experience of Disaster in Literature and Mythology 159
- Simon J.G. Burton and Marilyn E. Burton, Mythical Delight and Hope in C.S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces and Chronicles of Narnia 179
- Part III: Holding Out for a Hero ... and a Heroine
- N.J. Lowe, How to Become a Hero 193
- Robert A. Sucharski, Joe Alex (Maciej Słomczyński) and His Czarne okręty [Black Ships]: A History of a Trojan Boy in Times of the Minoan Thalassocracy 211
- Michael Stierstorfer, From an Adolescent Freak to a Hope-Spreading Messianic Demigod: The Curious Transformations of Modern Teenagers in Contemporary Mythopoetic Fantasy Literature (Percy Jackson, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Syrena Legacy) 219
- Markus Janka, Heracles/Hercules as the Hero of a Hopeful Culture in Ancient Poetry and Contemporary Literature and Media for Children and Young Adults 231
- Susan Deacy, Hercules: Bearer of Hope for Autistic Children? 251
- Edoardo Pecchini, Promoting Mental Health through the Classics: Hercules as Trainer in Today's Labours of Children and Young People 275
- Krishni Burns, La Fontaine's Reeds: Adapting Greek Mythical Heroines to Model Resilience 327 Part IV: Hope after Tragedy
- Sheila Murnaghan and Deborah H. Roberts, New Hope for Old Stories: Yiyun Li's Gilgamesh and Ali Smith's Antigone 345
- Edith Hall, Our Greek Tragic Hope: Young Adults Overcoming Family Trauma in New Novels by Natalie Haynes and Colm Tóibín 371
- Hanna Paulouskaya, Turning to Myth: The Soviet School Film Growing Up 387
- Divine Che Neba and Daniel A. Nkemleke, Ayi Kwei Armah's Two Thousand Seasons and Osiris Rising as Pan-African Epics 413
- Part V: Brand New Hope
- Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, The Utopia of an Ideal Community: Reconsidering the Myth of Atlantis in James Gurney's Dinotopia: The World Beneath 433
- Elizabeth Hale, Mystery, Childhood, and Meaning in Ursula Dubosarsky's The Golden Day 451
- Babette Puetz, When Is a Robot a Human? Hope, Myth, and Humanity in Bernard Beckett's Genesis 471
- Helen Lovatt, Hungry and Hopeful: Greek Myths and Children of the Future in Mike Carey's Melanie Stories 491
- Lisa Maurice, Percy Jackson and Israeli Fan Fiction: A Case Study 511
- Katerina Volioti, Images of Hope: The Gods in Greek Books for Young Children 531
- Ayelet Peer, Growing Up Manga Style: Mythological Reception in Yoshikazu Yasuhiko's Arion Manga 555
- Anna Mik, Et in (Disney) Arcadia ego: In Search of Hope in the 1940 Fantasia 577
- Elżbieta Olechowska, Between Hope and Destiny in the Young Adult Television Series Once Upon a Time, Season 5, Episodes 12-21 (2016) 593
- Part VI: Behold Hope All Ye Who Enter Here... Jerzy Axer, Kotick the Saviour: From Inferno to Paradise with Animals 613
- Krzysztof Rybak, All Is (Not) Lost: Myth in the Shadow of the Holocaust in Bezsenność Jutki [Jutka's Insomnia] by Dorota Combrzyńska-Nogala 629
- Owen Hodkinson, Orphic Resonances of Love and Loss in David Almond's A Song for Ella Grey 645
- Katarzyna Marciniak, "I Found Hope Again That Night...": The Orphean Quest of Beauty and the Beast 669
- Bibliography 721
- Index of Names 807
- Index of the Main Concepts and Mythological Figures 819.