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Record Nr.

UNINA9910724331303321

Autore

Marciniak Katarzyna <1978->

Titolo

Chasing mythical beasts : the reception of ancient monsters in children's and young adults' culture / / Katarzyna Marciniak

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Heidelberg : , : Universitätsverlag Winter, , 2020

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (646 pages)

Collana

Studien zur europäischen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur ; ; Band 8

Disciplina

809.89282

Soggetti

Children's literature - History and criticism

Young adult literature - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Titel -- Imprint -- Table of Contents -- Notes on the Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Katarzyna Marciniak -- What Is a (Classical) Monster? The Metamorphoses of the Be(a)st Friends of Childhood -- 1. In the Maze of Youth: Meeting the Minotaur -- Sheila Murnaghan with Deborah H. Roberts -- "A Kind of Minotaur": Literal and Spiritual Monstrosity in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Deborah H. Roberts with Sheila Murnaghan -- Picturing Duality: The Minotaur as Beast and Human in Illustrated Myth Collections for Children Liz Gloyn -- Mazes Intricate: The Minotaur as a Catalyst of Male Identity Formation in British Young Adult Fiction -- Markus Janka and Michael Stierstorfer -- 'Semibovemque virum semivirumque bovem': Mythological Hybrid Creatures as Key Fairy-Tale Actors in Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' and Postmodern Fantasy Literature and Media for Children and Young Adults -- Przemyslaw Kordos -- Familiar Monsters: Modern Greek Children Face the 'Minotavros, Idra, ' and 'Kerveros' -- Elizabeth Hale -- Facing the Minotaur in the Australian Labyrinth: Politics and the Personal in 'Requiem for a Beast' 2. Eye to Eye with Medusa & Co.: FACING the female Monsters -- Susan Deacy -- "From the shadows": Goddess, Monster, and Girl Power in Richard Woff's 'Bright-Eyed Athena in the Stories of Ancient Greece' -- Owen Hodkinson -- "She's not deadly. She's beautiful": Reclaiming Medusa for Millennial Tween and Teen Girls? -- Babette Puetz -- "What will happen to our honour now?": The Reception of Aeschylus' Erinyes in



Philip Pullman's 'The Amber Spyglass' Weronika Kostecka and Maciej Skowera -- Womanhood and/as Monstrosity: A Cultural and Individual Biography of the "Beast" in Anna Czerwi ska-Rydel's 'Baltycka syrena' [The Baltic Siren] -- Katarzyna Jerzak -- Remnants of Myth, Vestiges of Tragedy: Peter Pan in the Mermaids' Lagoon -- 3. Horned and Hoofed: Riding into the Adulthood -- Bettina Ku¨mmerling-Meibauer -- On the Trail of Pan: The Blending of References to Classical Antiquity and Romanticism in J. M. Barrie's 'Peter Pan' -- Edith Hall -- Cheiron as Youth Author: Ancient Example, Modern Responses Elena Ermolaeva -- Centaurs in Russian Fairy Tales: From the Half-Dog Pulicane to the Centaur Polkan -- Karoline Thaidigsmann -- (Non- )Flying Horses in the Polish People's Republic: The Crisis of the Mythical Beast in Ambivalent Polish Children's Literature -- Simon J.G. Burton -- A Narnian "Allegory of Love": The Pegasus in C.S. Lewis'' Chronicles of Narnia' -- 4. Mythical Creatures across Time and Space: Neogotiating the Bestiary -- Marilyn E. Burton -- Man as Creature: Allusions to Classical Beasts in N.D. Wilson's 'Ashtown Burials' Daniel A. Nkemleke and Divine Che Neba -- Human Categories in Oral Tradition in Cameroon.

Sommario/riassunto

Classical Antiquity is strongly present in youth culture globally. It accompanies children during their initiation into adulthood and thereby deepens their knowledge of the cultural code based on the Greek and Roman heritage. It enables intergenerational communication, with the reception of the Classics being able to serve as a marker of transformations underway in societies the world over. The team of contributors from Europe, North America, Africa, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand focuses on the reception of mythical creatures as the key to these transformations, including the changes in human mentality. The volume gathers the results of a stage of the programme 'Our Mythical Childhood', supported by an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Alumni Award for Innovative Networking Initiatives and an ERC Consolidator Grant. Thanks to the multidisciplinary character of its research (Classics, Modern Philologies, Animal Studies) and to the universal importance of the theme of childhood, the volume offers stimulating reading for scholars, students, and educators, as well as for a wider audience.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910623992603321

Autore

Bayard Marc

Titolo

Das dynamische Sein bei Nicolaus Cusanus : Ein Beitrag zur Begriffsgeschichte der dynamischen Ontologie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag Wiesbaden, 2019

ISBN

3-95490-622-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (344 p.)

Collana

Scrinium Friburgense

Soggetti

Time periods qualifiers

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Esse est movere - to be is to move. Contrary to our static notions of medieval philosophy, Nicolaus Cusanus in the 15th century sketches a dynamic view of the world in which creatures are independent and self-acting beings. For the elaboration of this dynamic ontology, the study offers a concept-historical analysis of dynamics: the dynamis of the Aristotelian doctrine of movement leads via the Neoplatonic 'force' and the 'divine omnipotence' of the patristic period to the medieval potentia. The philosophical starting point is contemporary process philosophy, for which Cusanus' dynamic approach certainly represents an opportunity.