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035 $a(OCoLC)1097678324
050 4 $aPN1009.A1$bN35 2019
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100 1 $aNelson, Claudia,$eauthor.
245 10 $aTopologies of the classical world in children's fiction :$bpalimpsests, maps, and fractals /$cClaudia Nelson and Anne Morey.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aOxford :$bOxford University Press,$c2019.
264 4 $c©2019
300 $ax, 267 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
336 $astill image$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aClassical presences
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 249-261) and index.
520 8 $aBeginning 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.
650 0 $aChildren's literature$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aHistory in literature.
650 7 $aChildren's literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01759351
650 7 $aHistory in literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00958338
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411635
700 1 $aMorey, Anne,$eeditor.
830 0 $aClassical presences.
852 00 $bglx$hPN1009.A1$iN35 2019