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- Our Mythical Hope. The Ancient Myths as Medicine for the Hardships of Life in Children’s and Young Adults’ Culture
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| Edition: | 1 |
| Place and year of publication: | Warszawa 2021 |
| Publication language: | angielski |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 978-83-235-5280-2 |
| EAN: | 9788323552802 |
| Number of page: | 836 |
| Binding: | Twarda |
| Format: | 17x24 cm |
| Weight: | 1635 g |
| Method of publication: | Druk |
| Publication type: | Praca naukowa |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323552888 |
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Classical Antiquity is a particularly important field in terms of “Hope studies” […]. For centuries, the ancient tradition, and classical mythology in particular, has been a common reference point for whole hosts of creators of culture, across many parts of the world, and with the new media and globalization only increasing its impact. Thus, in our research at this stage, we have decided to study how the authors of literary and audiovisual texts for youth make use of the ancient myths to support their young protagonists (and readers or viewers) in crucial moments of their existence, on their road into adulthood, and in those dark hours when it seems that life is about to shatter and fade away. However, if Hope is summoned in time, the crisis can be overcome and the protagonist grows stronger, with a powerful uplifting message for the public. […] Owing to this, we get a chance to remain true to our ideas, to keep faith in our dreams, and, when the decisive moment comes, to choose not hatred but love, not darkness but light.
Katarzyna Marciniak, University of Warsaw, From the introductory chapter
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The book is to be recommended for academics as well as graduate and postgraduate students working on the reception of Classical Antiquity and its transformations around the world.
David Movrin, University of Ljubljana
Our Mythical Hope is the latest collection of articles by scholars participating in an ongoing collaboration to ensure that the beauty and profundity of Classical myth remain known, and (hopefully) remain part of our modern culture. The size of this compendium, the sweep of subjects considered, the involvement of leading experts from around the world, all testify to how important and extensive this initiative has become over the last decade. The project’s continued commitment to engage all ages, especially the young, and to extend its outreach beyond the Academy merely, makes it a leading model for how research retains its relevance.
Mark O’Connor, Boston College
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Marguerite Johnson,
“For the Children”: Children’s Columns in Australian Newspapers during the Great War – Mythic Hope, or Mythic Indoctrination?
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323552888.pp.145-158Marciniak Katarzyna,
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8083-3253“I Found Hope Again That Night…”: The Orphean Quest of Beauty and the Beast
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323552888.pp.669-720Rachel Bryant Davies,
“This Is the Modern Horse of Troy”: The Trojan Horse as Nineteenth-Century Children’s Entertainment and Educational Analogy
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323552888.pp.89-130Krzysztof Rybak,
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8018-2622All Is (Not) Lost: Myth in the Shadow of the Holocaust in Bezsenność Jutki [Jutka’s Insomnia] by Dorota Combrzyńska-Nogala
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323552888.pp.629-644Divine Che Neba,
Daniel A. Nkemleke,
https://orcid.org/Ayi Kwei Armah’s Two Thousand Seasons and Osiris Rising as Pan-African Epics
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323552888.pp.413-432Jan Kieniewicz,
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3580-9112Bandar-Log in Action: The Polish Children’s Experience of Disaster in Literature and Mythology
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323552888.pp.159-178Elżbieta Olechowska,
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5708-3834Between Hope and Destiny in the Young Adult Television Series Once Upon a Time, Season 5, Episodes 12–21 (2016)
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323552888.pp.593-612Anna Mik,
Et in (Disney) Arcadia ego: In Search of Hope in the 1940 Fantasia
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323552888.pp.577-592Michael Stierstorfer,
From an Adolescent Freak to a Hope-Spreading Messianic Demigod: The Curious Transformations of Modern Teenagers in Contemporary Mythopoetic Fantasy Literature (Percy Jackson, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Syrena Legacy)
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323552888.pp.219-230Ayelet Peer,
Growing Up Manga Style: Mythological Reception in Yoshikazu Yasuhiko’s Arion Manga
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323552888.pp.555-576Markus Janka,
Heracles/Hercules as the Hero of a Hopeful Culture in Ancient Poetry and Contemporary Literature and Media for Children and Young Adults
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323552888.pp.231-250Susan Deacy,
Hercules: Bearer of Hope for Autistic Children?
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323552888.pp.251-274N. J. Lowe,
How to Become a Hero
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323552888.pp.193-210Helen Lovatt,
Hungry and Hopeful: Greek Myths and Children of the Future in Mike Carey’s Melanie Stories
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323552888.pp.491-510Katerina Volioti,
Images of Hope: The Gods in Greek Books for Young Children
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323552888.pp.531-554Robert Sucharski,
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7708-7173Joe Alex (Maciej Słomczyński) and his Czarne okręty [Black Ships]: A History of a Trojan Boy in Times of the Minoan Thalassocracy
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323552888.pp.211-218Prof. dr hab. Jerzy Axer,
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9588-7940Kotick the Saviour: From Inferno to Paradise with Animals
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323552888.pp.613-628Krishni Burns,
La Fontaine’s Reeds: Adapting Greek Mythical Heroines to Model Resilience
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323552888.pp.327-344Elizabeth Hale,
Mystery, Childhood, and Meaning in Ursula Dubosarsky’s The Golden Day
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323552888.pp.451-470Katarzyna Jerzak,
Myth and Suffering in Modern Culture: The Discursive Role of Myth from Oscar Wilde to Woodkid
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323552888.pp.131-144Simon Burton,
Marilyn E. Burton,
Mythical Delight and Hope in C.S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces and Chronicles of Narnia
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323552888.pp.179-192Sheila Murnaghan
Deborah H. Roberts,
New Hope for Old Stories: Yiyun Li’s Gilgamesh and Ali Smith’s Antigone
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323552888.pp.345-370Owen Hodkinson,
Orphic Resonances of Love and Loss in David Almond’s A Song for Ella Grey
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323552888.pp.645-668Edith Hall,
Our Greek Tragic Hope: Young Adults Overcoming Family Trauma in New Novels by Natalie Haynes and Colm Tóibín
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323552888.pp.371-387Lisa Maurice,
Percy Jackson and Israeli Fan Fiction: A Case Study
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323552888.pp.511-530Véronique Dasen,
Playing with Life Uncertainties in Antiquity
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323552888.pp.71-88Edoardo Pecchini
Promoting Mental Health through the Classics: Hercules as Trainer in Today’s Labours of Children and Young People
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323552888.pp.275-326Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer,
The Utopia of an Ideal Community: Reconsidering the Myth of Atlantis in James Gurney’s Dinotopia: The World Beneath
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323552888.pp.433-450Hanna Paulouskaya,
Turning to Myth: The Soviet School Film Growing Up
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323552888.pp.387-412Marciniak Katarzyna,
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8083-3253What Is Mythical Hope in Children’s and Young Adults’ Culture? – or: Sharing the Light
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323552888.pp.11-46Babette Puetz,
When Is a Robot a Human? Hope, Myth, and Humanity in Bernard Beckett’s Genesis
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323552888.pp.471-490Bibliography
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