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Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children¿s Fantasy
Idealization, Identity, Ideology
Buch von Dimitra Fimi
Sprache: Englisch

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Runner-up of the Katherine Briggs Folklore Award 2017
Winner of the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth & Fantasy Studies 2019
This book examines the creative uses of ¿Celtic¿ myth in contemporary fantasy written for children or young adults from the 1960s to the 2000s. Its scope ranges from classic children¿s fantasies such as Lloyd Alexander¿s The Chronicles of Prydain and Alan Garner¿s The Owl Service, to some of the most recent, award-winning fantasy authors of the last decade, such as Kate Thompson (The New Policeman) and Catherine Fisher (Darkhenge). The book focuses on the ways these fantasy works have appropriated and adapted Irish and Welsh medieval literature in order to highlight different perceptions of ¿Celticity.¿ The term ¿Celtic¿ itself is interrogated in light of recent debates in Celtic studies, in order to explore a fictional representation of a national past that is often romanticized and political.
Runner-up of the Katherine Briggs Folklore Award 2017
Winner of the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth & Fantasy Studies 2019
This book examines the creative uses of ¿Celtic¿ myth in contemporary fantasy written for children or young adults from the 1960s to the 2000s. Its scope ranges from classic children¿s fantasies such as Lloyd Alexander¿s The Chronicles of Prydain and Alan Garner¿s The Owl Service, to some of the most recent, award-winning fantasy authors of the last decade, such as Kate Thompson (The New Policeman) and Catherine Fisher (Darkhenge). The book focuses on the ways these fantasy works have appropriated and adapted Irish and Welsh medieval literature in order to highlight different perceptions of ¿Celticity.¿ The term ¿Celtic¿ itself is interrogated in light of recent debates in Celtic studies, in order to explore a fictional representation of a national past that is often romanticized and political.
Über den Autor

Dimitra Fimi is Senior Lecturer in English at Cardiff Metropolitan University, Wales, UK. Her monograph Tolkien, Race and Cultural History won the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inklings Studies. She is co-editor A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages. She lectures on fantasy, children's literature, and medievalism.

Zusammenfassung

Offers fresh perspectives on Celtic studies by considering recent critical discussion of the term "Celtic"

Covers a range of material, spanning classic children's books to contemporary fantasy authors such as Kate Thompson and Catherine Fisher

Examines in depth the appropriation and adaptation of Celtic myth and folklore

Inhaltsverzeichnis
1.Introduction.- Part I. Irish Myth.- 2. Otherworldly Ireland.- 3. Celticity and the Irish Diaspora.- Part II. Welsh Myth.- 4. Lloyd Alexander's 'The Chronicles of Prydain'.- 5. Welsh Heritage for Teenagers.- 6. Susan Cooper and the Arthur of the Welsh.- 7. Conclusion.- Bibliography.- Index.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Rubrik: Sprachwissenschaft
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 320
Reihe: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
Inhalt: xiii
305 S.
11 s/w Illustr.
305 p. 11 illus.
ISBN-13: 9781137552815
ISBN-10: 1137552816
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Fimi, Dimitra
Auflage: 1st ed. 2017
Hersteller: Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
Maße: 216 x 153 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Dimitra Fimi
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.03.2017
Gewicht: 0,528 kg
preigu-id: 108578673
Über den Autor

Dimitra Fimi is Senior Lecturer in English at Cardiff Metropolitan University, Wales, UK. Her monograph Tolkien, Race and Cultural History won the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inklings Studies. She is co-editor A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages. She lectures on fantasy, children's literature, and medievalism.

Zusammenfassung

Offers fresh perspectives on Celtic studies by considering recent critical discussion of the term "Celtic"

Covers a range of material, spanning classic children's books to contemporary fantasy authors such as Kate Thompson and Catherine Fisher

Examines in depth the appropriation and adaptation of Celtic myth and folklore

Inhaltsverzeichnis
1.Introduction.- Part I. Irish Myth.- 2. Otherworldly Ireland.- 3. Celticity and the Irish Diaspora.- Part II. Welsh Myth.- 4. Lloyd Alexander's 'The Chronicles of Prydain'.- 5. Welsh Heritage for Teenagers.- 6. Susan Cooper and the Arthur of the Welsh.- 7. Conclusion.- Bibliography.- Index.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Rubrik: Sprachwissenschaft
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 320
Reihe: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
Inhalt: xiii
305 S.
11 s/w Illustr.
305 p. 11 illus.
ISBN-13: 9781137552815
ISBN-10: 1137552816
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Fimi, Dimitra
Auflage: 1st ed. 2017
Hersteller: Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
Maße: 216 x 153 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Dimitra Fimi
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.03.2017
Gewicht: 0,528 kg
preigu-id: 108578673
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