By Dimitra Fimi
ISBN-10: 1137552816
ISBN-13: 9781137552815
This booklet examines the inventive makes use of of “Celtic” delusion in modern delusion written for kids or teenagers from the Sixties to the 2000s. Its scope levels from vintage children’s fantasies reminiscent of Lloyd Alexander’s The Chronicles of Prydain and Alan Garner’s The Owl Service, to a couple of the newest, award-winning myth authors of the decade, reminiscent of Kate Thompson (The New Policeman) and Catherine Fisher (Darkhenge). The e-book makes a speciality of the methods those myth works have appropriated and tailored Irish and Welsh medieval literature for you to spotlight diverse perceptions of “Celticity.” The time period “Celtic” itself is interrogated in mild of contemporary debates in Celtic stories, so that it will discover a fictional illustration of a countrywide earlier that's usually romanticized and political.
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Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy: Idealization, Identity, Ideology (Critical Approaches to Children's Literature) by Dimitra Fimi
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