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LEADER: 01934nam a22003378a 4500
001 2011008970
003 DLC
005 20110314155948.0
008 110311s2011 nyu 000 0 eng
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050 00 $aPR830.G57$bB63 2011
082 00 $a823/.087660992827$222
100 1 $aBlackford, Holly Virginia.
245 14 $aThe myth of Persephone in girls' fantasy literature /$cHolly Virginia Blackford.
260 $aNew York :$bRoutledge,$c2011.
263 $a1107
300 $ap. cm.
490 0 $aChildren's literature and culture ;$v80
505 0 $aIntroduction: Reaching for the narcissus: Byronic boys, toys, and the plight of Persephone -- Unearthing the child underworld: the history of Persephone and developmental psychology -- Toying with Persephone: Herr Drosselmeier and Marie in E. T. A. Hoffmann's Nutcracker and Mouse King -- Jo's sensational boy and the gift of Amy's soul in Louisa May Alcott's Little women (1868-1869) -- Lost girls, underworld queens in J.M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy (1911) and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights -- Eleusinian mysteries in Frances Hodgson Burnett's The secret garden -- The Byronic woman: E.B. White's Charlotte's web -- The riddle of feminine criture in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and The chamber of secrets -- Divorce and other mothers: Stephenie Meyer's Twilight (2005) and Neil Gaiman's Coraline.
650 0 $aGirls in literature.
650 0 $aMyth in literature.
650 0 $aPersephone (Greek deity) in literature.
650 0 $aChildren's stories, English$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aChildren's stories, American$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aChildren's stories$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aFantasy fiction, English$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aFantasy fiction, American$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aChild psychology in literature.