03123nam 22005895 450 991025506680332120251030103912.09781137552822113755282410.1057/978-1-137-55282-2(CKB)3710000001094827(DE-He213)978-1-137-55282-2(MiAaPQ)EBC4818782(Perlego)3507112(EXLCZ)99371000000109482720170306d2017 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCeltic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy Idealization, Identity, Ideology /by Dimitra Fimi1st ed. 2017.London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2017.1 online resource (XIII, 305 p. 11 illus.) Critical Approaches to Children's Literature,2753-08339781137552815 1137552816 Includes bibliographical references and index.1.Introduction -- Part I. Irish Myth -- 2. Otherworldly Ireland -- 3. Celticity and the Irish Diaspora -- Part II. Welsh Myth -- 4. Lloyd Alexander’s 'The Chronicles of Prydain' -- 5. Welsh Heritage for Teenagers -- 6. Susan Cooper and the Arthur of the Welsh -- 7. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.This book examines the creative uses of “Celtic” myth in contemporary fantasy written for children or young adults from the 1960s to the 2000s. Its scope ranges from classic children’s fantasies such as Lloyd Alexander’s The Chronicles of Prydain and Alan Garner’s The Owl Service, to some of the most recent, award-winning fantasy authors of the last decade, such as Kate Thompson (The New Policeman) and Catherine Fisher (Darkhenge). The book focuses on the ways these fantasy works have appropriated and adapted Irish and Welsh medieval literature in order to highlight different perceptions of “Celticity.” The term “Celtic” itself is interrogated in light of recent debates in Celtic studies, in order to explore a fictional representation of a national past that is often romanticized and political.Critical Approaches to Children's Literature,2753-0833Children's literatureLiterature, Modern20th centuryLiterature, Modern21st centuryLiteratureHistory and criticismChildren's LiteratureContemporary LiteratureLiterary HistoryChildren's literature.Literature, ModernLiterature, ModernLiteratureHistory and criticism.Children's Literature.Contemporary Literature.Literary History.809.89282Fimi Dimitraauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut975288BOOK9910255066803321Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy2220941UNINA