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English Fantasy fiction, Children's stories, English, Children's stories, American, Myth in literature, History and criticism, Girls in literature, American Fantasy fiction, Children's stories, Child psychology in literature, Persephone (Greek deity) in literature, Children's fiction, Fantasy fiction, In literature, Daughters in literature, Filles dans la littérature, Mythe dans la littérature, Histoires pour enfants anglaises, Histoire et critique, Histoires pour enfants américaines, Histoires pour enfants, Enfants, Psychologie, dans la littérature, LITERARY CRITICISM, European, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LiteratureShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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The myth of Persephone in girls' fantasy literature
2011, Routledge
in English
0415895413 9780415895415
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Introduction: 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.
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