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Auteur(s) : Nelson, Claudia (1960-....)
Morey, Anne
Titre(s) : Topologies of the classical world in children's fiction [Texte imprimé] : palimpsests, maps, and fractals / Claudia Nelson and Anne Morey
Édition : First edition
Publication : Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019
Description matérielle : x, 267 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Collection : Classical presences
Lien à la collection : Classical presences
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-261) and index
Beginning with Rudyard Kipling and Edith Nesbit and concluding with best-selling series
still ongoing at the time of writing, this volume examines works of twentieth- and
twenty-first-century children's literature that incorporate character types, settings,
and narratives derived from the Greco-Roman past. Drawing on a cognitive poetics approach
to reception studies, it argues that authors typically employ a limited and powerful
set of spatial metaphors - palimpsest, map, and fractal - to organize the classical
past for preteen and adolescent readers. Palimpsest texts see the past as a collection
of strata in which each new era forms a layer superimposed upon a foundation laid
earlier; map texts use the metaphor of the mappable journey to represent a protagonist's
process of maturing while gaining knowledge of the self and/or the world; fractal
texts, in which small parts of the narrative are thematically identical to the whole,
present the past in a way that implies that history is infinitely repeatable. While
a given text may embrace multiple metaphors in presenting the past, associations between
dominant metaphors, genre, and outlook emerge from the case studies examined in each
chapter, revealing remarkable thematic continuities in how the past is represented
and how agency is attributed to protagonists: each model, it is suggested, uses the
classical past to urge and thus perhaps to develop a particular approach to life
Sujet(s) : Littérature pour la jeunesse
Histoire -- Dans la littérature pour la jeunesse
Indice(s) Dewey :
809.892 82 (23e éd.) = Littérature - Histoire et critique - Pour ou par les enfants
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780198846031. - ISBN 0198846037 (rel)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46540243t
Notice n° :
FRBNF46540243
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