Retelling Stories, Framing Culture - Traditional Story and Metanarratives in Children''s Literature

Informationen zum Autor John Stephens, Robyn McCallum Klappentext First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Zusammenfassung What happens to traditional stories when they are retold in another time and cultural context? This study discusses a variety of stories including myths, folk tales and heroic legends to explain. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter I PRE-TEXTS, METANARRATIVES, AND THE WESTERN METAETHIC Chapter 2 AUTHORITY, WISDOM, AND CULTURAL HERITAGE: BIBLICAL LITERATURE AS PRE-TEXT Chapter 3 CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY: THE MYSTERY UNDERLYING EVERYDAY THINGS? Chapter 4 DISTINCTION, INDIVIDUALITY, SOCIALITY: PATTERNS FOR A HEROIC LIFE Chapter 5 AN AFFIRMATION OF CIVILIZATION AGAINST BARBARISM: ARTHUR AND ARTHURIANISM IN MEDIEVALIST AND QUASI-MEDIEVAL ROMANCE Chapter 6 THE Boys IN THE GREENWOOD: STORIES OF ROBIN HOOD Chapter 7 FOLKTALE AND METANARRATIVES OF FEMALE AGENCY Chapter 8 THE IDEA OF THE ORIENT: STORIES AND MOTIFS FROM THE ARABIAN NIGHTS Chapter 9 REVERSIONS OF EARLY MODERN CLASSICS

Product details

• Authors: Robyn Mccallum, McCallum Robyn, John Stephens, John Mccallum Stephens
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.1998
• EAN: 9780815312987
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-1298-7
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Children's Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Children's & teenage literature studies, Children’s and teenage literature studies: general