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Classical Reception and Children´s Literature: Greece, Rome and Childhood Transformation
Helen Lovatt
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Description for Classical Reception and Children´s Literature: Greece, Rome and Childhood Transformation
Hardback. Reception studies have transformed the classics. Editor(s): Lovatt, Helen; Hodkinson, Owen. Series: Library of Classical Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSY; HBLA1; HRKP3; JFCX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Reception studies have transformed the classics. Many more literary and cultural texts are now regarded as 'valid' for classical study. And within this process of widening, children's literature has in its turn emerged as being increasingly important. Books written for children now comprise one of the largest and most prominent bodies of texts to engage with the classical world, with an audience that constantly changes as it grows up. This innovative volume wrestles with that very characteristic of change which is so fundamental to children's literature, showing how significant the classics, as well as classically-inspired fiction and verse, have been ... Read more
Reception studies have transformed the classics. Many more literary and cultural texts are now regarded as 'valid' for classical study. And within this process of widening, children's literature has in its turn emerged as being increasingly important. Books written for children now comprise one of the largest and most prominent bodies of texts to engage with the classical world, with an audience that constantly changes as it grows up. This innovative volume wrestles with that very characteristic of change which is so fundamental to children's literature, showing how significant the classics, as well as classically-inspired fiction and verse, have been ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Library of Classical Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781788310208
SKU
V9781788310208
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About Helen Lovatt
Owen Hodkinson is Lecturer in Greek and Roman Cultures at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Authority and Tradition in Philostratus' Heroikos (2011) and of Metafiction in Classical Literature: The Invention of Self-Conscious Fiction (2017, forthcoming). Helen Lovatt is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Nottingham. Her books include Statius and Epic Games: Sport, Politics ... Read more
Reviews for Classical Reception and Children´s Literature: Greece, Rome and Childhood Transformation
`This is an important book, which opens up a rich new field for classical reception studies. But more than that, it is a truly delightful book - a Wonderland of insights and surprises, as enchanting as it is learned.' - Edmund Richardson, Lecturer in Classics, Durham University, author of Classical Victorians: Scholars, Scoundrels and Generals in Pursuit of Antiquity, `The ... Read more