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

• Superior document: Studien zur europäischen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur ; Band 8
• VerfasserIn: Marciniak, Katarzyna, 1978-
• 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 resource (646 pages).

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

Cover -- Titel -- Imprint -- 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 -- Przemyslaw 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 Czerwi ska-Rydel's 'Baltycka 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 Ku¨mmerling-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: Neogotiating 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.