Chasing mythical beasts : : the reception of ancient monsters in children's and young adults' culture / / Katarzyna Marciniak, editor.

• Superior document: Studien zur europäischen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur Band 8
• TeilnehmendeR: Marciniak, Katarzyna,
• Place / Publishing House: Heidelberg : : Universitätsverlag Winter,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Studien zur europäischen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur Band 8
• Physical Description: 1 Online-Ressource (623 Seiten)
• Notes: Includes index.

Classical Antiquity is strongly present in youth culture globally. It accompanies children during their initiation into adulthood and thereby deepens their knowledge of the cultural code based on the Greek and Roman heritage. It enables intergenerational communication, with the reception of the Classics being able to serve as a marker of transformations underway in societies the world over. The team of contributors from Europe, North America, Africa, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand focuses on the reception of mythical creatures as the key to these transformations, including the changes in human mentality. The volume gathers the results of a stage of the programme 'Our Mythical Childhood', supported by an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Alumni Award for Innovative Networking Initiatives and an ERC Consolidator Grant.Thanks to the multidisciplinary character of its research (Classics, Modern Philologies, Animal Studies) and to the universal importance of the theme of childhood, the volume offers stimulating reading for scholars, students, and educators, as well as for a wider audience.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents -- Notes on the Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Katarzyna Marciniak What Is a (Classical) Monster? The Metamorphoses of the Be(a)st Friends of Childhood -- 1. IN THE MAZE OF YOUTH: MEETING THE MINOTAUR -- Sheila Murnaghan with Deborah H. Roberts "A Kind of Minotaur": Literal and Spiritual Monstrosity in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Deborah H. Roberts with Sheila Murnaghan Picturing Duality: The Minotaur as Beast and Human in Illustrated Myth Collections for Children -- Liz Gloyn Mazes Intricate: The Minotaur as a Catalyst of Male Identity Formation in British Young Adult Fiction -- Markus Janka and Michael Stierstorfer Semibovemque virum semivirumque bovem: Mythological Hybrid Creatures as Key Fairy-Tale Actors in Ovid's Metamorphoses and Postmodern Fantasy Literature and Media for Children and Young Adults -- Przemysław Kordos Familiar Monsters: Modern Greek Children Face the Minotavros, Idra, and Kerveros -- Elizabeth Hale Facing the Minotaur in the Australian Labyrinth: Politics and the Personal in Requiem for a Beast -- 2. EYE TO EYE WITH MEDUSA & CO.: FACING THE FEMALE MONSTERS -- Susan Deacy "From the shadows": Goddess, Monster, and Girl Power in Richard Woff's Bright-Eyed Athena in the Stories of Ancient Greece -- Owen Hodkinson "She's not deadly. She's beautiful": Reclaiming Medusa for Millennial Tween and Teen Girls? -- Babette Puetz "What will happen to our honour now?": The Reception of Aeschylus' Erinyes in Philip Pullman's The Amber Spyglass -- Weronika Kostecka and Maciej Skowera Womanhood and/as Monstrosity: A Cultural and Individual Biography of the "Beast" in Anna Czerwinska-Rydel's Bałtycka syrena [The Baltic Siren] -- Katarzyna Jerzak Remnants of Myth, Vestiges of Tragedy: Peter Pan in the Mermaids' Lagoon -- 3. HORNED AND HOOFED: RIDING INTO THE ADULTHOOD -- Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer On the Trail of Pan: The Blending of References to Classical Antiquity and Romanticism in J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan -- Edith Hall Cheiron as Youth Author: Ancient Example, Modern Responses -- Elena Ermolaeva Centaurs in Russian Fairy Tales: From the Half-Dog Pulicane to the Centaur Polkan -- Karoline Thaidigsmann (Non-)Flying Horses in the Polish People's Republic: The Crisis of the Mythical Beast in Ambivalent Polish Children's Literature -- Simon J. G. Burton A Narnian "Allegory of Love": The Pegasus in C. S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia -- 4. MYTHICAL CREATURES ACROSS TIME AND SPACE: NEGOTIATING THE BESTIARY -- Marilyn E. Burton Man as Creature: Allusions to Classical Beasts in N. D. Wilson's Ashtown Burials -- Daniel A. Nkemleke and Divine Che Neba Human Categories in Oral Tradition in Cameroon -- Jerzy Axer and Jan Kieniewicz The Wobo's Itinerary: There and Back Again -- Małgorzata Borowska The Awakening of the ..., or Inside a Great Fish Belly -- Adam Łukaszewicz Fantastic Creatures Seen by a Shipwrecked Sailor and by a Herdsman -- Robert A. Sucharski Stanisław Pagaczewski and His Tale(s) of the Wawel Dragon -- Helen Lovatt Fantastic Beasts and Where They Come From: How Greek Are Harry Potter's Mythical Animals? -- 5. AND THE CHASE GOES ON: THE MONSTERS OF VISUAL CULTURE -- Elzbieta Olechowska New Mythological Hybrids Are Born in Bande Dessinée: Greek Myths as Seen by Joann Sfar and Christophe Blain -- Hanna Paulouskaya Mythical Beasts Made Soviet: Adaptation of Greek Mythology in Soviet Animation of the 1970s -- Amanda Potter Bringing Classical Monsters to Life on BBC Children's Television: Gorgons, Minotaurs, and Sirens in Doctor Who, The Sarah Jane Adventures, and Atlantis -- Konrad Dominas The Internet and Popular Culture: The Reception of Mythical Creatures in the Context of Multimedia and Interactive Materials for Children -- Katarzyna Marciniak Chasing Mythical Muppets: Classical Antiquity according to Jim Henson -- Index.