Our Mythical Childhood...

The Reception of Classical Antiquity in Children’s and Young Adults’ Culture in Response to Regional and Global Challenges

Bibliography

We wish to make use of our work also to share the results of our bibliographical query in the hope they can facilitate further research of other colleagues all over the globe. In this place we gather scholarly publications on the reception and children’s and young adults’ culture.

Reception Studies

Children's & YA's Culture

Reception Studies in Children's & YA's Culture

Almagor, Eran (2015). Bridging the Gap between Generations: Astérix between Child and Adult, Classical and Modern. [In:] The Reception of Ancient Greece and Rome in Children's Literature. Heroes and Eagles. ed. Lisa Maurice. "Metaforms" Volume 6. Leiden, Boston: Brill.
Axer, Jerzy (2016). A Latin Lesson for Bad Boys, or: Kipling's Tale of the Enchanted Bird. [In:] Our Mythical Childhood... The Classics and Literature for Children and Young Adults. ed. Katarzyna Marciniak. "Metaforms" Volume 8. Leiden, Boston: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004335370
Bazovsky, Gillian (2018). The Paradox of Pan s a Figure of Regeneration in Children's Literature. [In:] Classical Reception and Children's Literature: Greece, Rome and Childhood Transformation. ed. Owen Hodkinson, Helen Lovatt. London, New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic.
Blackford, Holly (2014). The Myth of Persephone in Girls' Fantasy Literature. "Children's Literature and Culture". New York, NY; London: Routledge.
Brauzouski, Antoinette; Klatt, Mary J. (1994). Children's Books on Ancient Greek and Roman Mythology: An Annotated Bibliography. London, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
Brown, Sarah Annes (2017). The Classical Pantheon in Children's Fantasy Literature. [In:] Classical Tradition in Modern Fantasy. ed. Brett M. Rogers, Benjamin Eldon Stevens. Oxford, New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Butler, Catherine (2015). The "Grand Tour" as Transformative Experience in Children's Novels about the Roman Invasion. [In:] The Reception of Ancient Greece and Rome in Children's Literature. Heroes and Eagles. ed. Lisa Maurice. "Metaforms" Volume 6. Leiden, Boston: Brill.
Cadnum, Michael (2018). Beyond the Word; Gossip, Murder, and the Legend of Orpheus. [In:] Classical Reception and Children's Literature: Greece, Rome and Childhood Transformation. ed. Owen Hodkinson, Helen Lovatt. London, New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic.
Ermolaeva, Elena (2016). Classical Antiquity in Children's Literature in the Soviet Union. [In:] Our Mythical Childhood... The Classics and Literature for Children and Young Adults. ed. Katarzyna Marciniak. "Metaforms" Volume 8. Leiden, Boston: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004335370
Foster, Frances (2019). Drinking Blood and Talking Ghosts in Diana Wynne Jones's The Time of the Ghost. [In:] Once and Future Antiquities in Science Fiction and Fantasy. ed. Brett M. Rogers, Benjamin Eldon Stevens. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Garulli, Valentina (2016). Laura Orvieto and the Classical Heritage in Italy before the Second World War. [In:] Our Mythical Childhood... The Classics and Literature for Children and Young Adults. ed. Katarzyna Marciniak. "Metaforms" Volume 8. Leiden, Boston: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004335370
Grzybowska, Agata (2016). Saul Tchernichowsky's Mythical Childhood: Homeric Allusions in the Idyll "Elka's Wedding". [In:] Our Mythical Childhood... The Classics and Literature for Children and Young Adults. ed. Katarzyna Marciniak. "Metaforms" Volume 8. Leiden, Boston: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004335370
Hale, Elizabeth (2016). Katabasis "Down Under" in the Novels of Margaret Mahy and Maurice Gee. [In:] Our Mythical Childhood... The Classics and Literature for Children and Young Adults. ed. Katarzyna Marciniak. "Metaforms" Volume 8. Leiden, Boston: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004335370
Hale, Elizabeth (2015). Classics, Children's Literature, and the Character of Childhood, from Tom Brown's Schooldays to The Enchanted Castle. [In:] The Reception of Ancient Greece and Rome in Children's Literature. Heroes and Eagles. ed. Lisa Maurice. "Metaforms" Volume 6. Leiden, Boston: Brill.
Hall, Edith (2016). Our Fabled Childhood: Reflections on the Unsuitability of Aesop to Children. [In:] Our Mythical Childhood... The Classics and Literature for Children and Young Adults. ed. Katarzyna Marciniak. "Metaforms" Volume 8. Leiden, Boston: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004335370
Hall, Edith (2018). Aesop the Morphing Fabulist. [In:] Classical Reception and Children's Literature: Greece, Rome and Childhood Transformation. ed. Owen Hodkinson, Helen Lovatt. London, New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic.
Hawkins, Aileen; Poe, Alison (2018). Narcissus in Children's Contexts: Didacticism and Scopophilia?. [In:] Classical Reception and Children's Literature: Greece, Rome and Childhood Transformation. ed. Owen Hodkinson, Helen Lovatt. London, New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic.
Hodkinson, Owen (2016). ''His Greek Materials': Philip Pullman's Use of Classical Mythology. [In:] Our Mythical Childhood... The Classics and Literature for Children and Young Adults. ed. Katarzyna Marciniak. "Metaforms" Volume 8. Leiden, Boston: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004335370
Hodkinson, Owen (2018). Interview with Michael Cadnum. [In:] Classical Reception and Children's Literature: Greece, Rome and Childhood Transformation. ed. Owen Hodkinson, Helen Lovatt. London, New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic.
Hodkinson, Owen (2018). Michael Cadnum's Metamorphoses of Ovid. [In:] Classical Reception and Children's Literature: Greece, Rome and Childhood Transformation. ed. Owen Hodkinson, Helen Lovatt. London, New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic.
Hodkinson, Owen; Lovatt, Helen (ed.) (2018). Classical Reception and Children's Literature: Greece, Rome and Childhood Transformation. London, New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic.
Jerzak, Katarzyna (2016). The Aftermath of Myth through the Lens of Walter Benjamin: Hermes in J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens and in Astrid Lindgren's Karlson on the Roof. [In:] Our Mythical Childhood... The Classics and Literature for Children and Young Adults. ed. Katarzyna Marciniak. "Metaforms" Volume 8. Leiden, Boston: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004335370
Keen, Tony (2015). "Wulf the Briton": Resisting Rome in a 1950s British Boys' Adventure Strip. [In:] The Reception of Ancient Greece and Rome in Children's Literature. Heroes and Eagles. ed. Lisa Maurice. "Metaforms" Volume 6. Leiden, Boston: Brill.
Knorr, Ortwin (2019). Lyra's Odyssey in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy. [In:] Once and Future Antiquities in Science Fiction and Fantasy. ed. Brett M. Rogers, Benjamin Eldon Stevens. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Kordos, Przemysław (2016). A Child among the Ruins: Some Thoughts on Contemporary Modern Greek Literature for Children. [In:] Our Mythical Childhood... The Classics and Literature for Children and Young Adults. ed. Katarzyna Marciniak. "Metaforms" Volume 8. Leiden, Boston: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004335370
Kubiak Ho-Chi, Beata (2016). Aesop's Fables in Japanese Literature for Children: Classical Antiquity and Japan. [In:] Our Mythical Childhood... The Classics and Literature for Children and Young Adults. ed. Katarzyna Marciniak. "Metaforms" Volume 8. Leiden, Boston: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004335370
Kümmerling-Meibauer, Bettina (2016). Orpheus and Eurydice: Reception of a Classical Myth in International Children’s Literature. [In:] Our Mythical Childhood... The Classics and Literature for Children and Young Adults. ed. Katarzyna Marciniak. "Metaforms" Volume 8. Leiden, Boston: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004335370
Kłos, Joanna (2016). Telemachus in Jeans: Adam Bahdaj's Reception of the Myth about Odysseus's Son. [In:] Our Mythical Childhood... The Classics and Literature for Children and Young Adults. ed. Katarzyna Marciniak. "Metaforms" Volume 8. Leiden, Boston: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004335370
Lovatt, Caroline; Lovatt, Helen; Lovatt, Jonathan (2018). Afterword: Inheriting the Past: Children's Voices and Parenting Experiences. [In:] Classical Reception and Children's Literature: Greece, Rome and Childhood Transformation. ed. Owen Hodkinson, Helen Lovatt. London, New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic.
Lovatt, Helen (2016). East, West, and Finding Yourself in Caroline Lawrence's "Roman Mysteries". [In:] Our Mythical Childhood... The Classics and Literature for Children and Young Adults. ed. Katarzyna Marciniak. "Metaforms" Volume 8. Leiden, Boston: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004335370
Lovatt, Helen (2018). Changing Alexandria: Didactic Plots and Roman Detectives in Caroline Lawrence and Lindsey Davis. [In:] Classical Reception and Children's Literature: Greece, Rome and Childhood Transformation. ed. Owen Hodkinson, Helen Lovatt. London, New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic.
Lye, Suzanne (2019). Displacing Nostos and the Ancient Greek Hero in Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away. [In:] Once and Future Antiquities in Science Fiction and Fantasy. ed. Brett M. Rogers, Benjamin Eldon Stevens. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Makins, Marian W. (2018). Latin, Greek, and Other Classical 'Nonsense' in the Work of Edward Lear. [In:] Classical Reception and Children's Literature: Greece, Rome and Childhood Transformation. ed. Owen Hodkinson, Helen Lovatt. London, New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic.
Manwell, Elizabeth A. (2017). Girls in Bears' Clothing in Greek Myth and Disney/Pixar's Brave. [In:] Classical Tradition in Modern Fantasy. ed. Brett M. Rogers, Benjamin Eldon Stevens. Oxford, New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Marciniak, Katarzyna (2016). What Is a Classic... for Children and Young Adults?. [In:] Our Mythical Childhood... The Classics and Literature for Children and Young Adults. ed. Katarzyna Marciniak. "Metaforms" Volume 8. Leiden, Boston: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004335370
Marciniak, Katarzyna (2016). Create Your Own Mythology: Youngsters for Youngsters (and Oldsters) in Mythological Fan Fiction. [In:] Our Mythical Childhood... The Classics and Literature for Children and Young Adults. ed. Katarzyna Marciniak. "Metaforms" Volume 8. Leiden, Boston: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004335370
Marciniak, Katarzyna (2015). (De)constructing Arcadia: Polish Struggles with History and Differing Colours of Childhood in the Mirror of Classical Mythology. [In:] The Reception of Ancient Greece and Rome in Children's Literature. Heroes and Eagles. ed. Lisa Maurice. "Metaforms" Volume 6. Leiden, Boston: Brill.
Maurice, Lisa (2016). Greek Mythology in Israeli Children's Literature. [In:] Our Mythical Childhood... The Classics and Literature for Children and Young Adults. ed. Katarzyna Marciniak. "Metaforms" Volume 8. Leiden, Boston: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004335370
Maurice, Lisa (2015). From Chiron to Foaly: The Centaur in Classical Mythology and Fantasy Literature. [In:] The Reception of Ancient Greece and Rome in Children's Literature. Heroes and Eagles. ed. Lisa Maurice. "Metaforms" Volume 6. Leiden, Boston: Brill.
Maurice, Lisa (2018). 'I'd break the slate and scream for joy if I did Latin like a boy!': Studying and Teaching Classics in Girls' and Boys' Fiction. [In:] Classical Reception and Children's Literature: Greece, Rome and Childhood Transformation. ed. Owen Hodkinson, Helen Lovatt. London, New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic.
McMenomy, Mary (2015). Reading the Fiction of Video Games. [In:] The Reception of Ancient Greece and Rome in Children's Literature. Heroes and Eagles. ed. Lisa Maurice. "Metaforms" Volume 6. Leiden, Boston: Brill.
Miles, Geoffrey (2015). Chasing Odysseus in Twenty-First-Century Children's Fiction. [In:] The Reception of Ancient Greece and Rome in Children's Literature. Heroes and Eagles. ed. Lisa Maurice. "Metaforms" Volume 6. Leiden, Boston: Brill.
Miles, Geoffrey (2018). Ovid Misunderstood: The Metamorphoses in Narnia . [In:] Classical Reception and Children's Literature: Greece, Rome and Childhood Transformation. ed. Owen Hodkinson, Helen Lovatt. London, New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic.
Milewska-Waźbińska, Barbara (2016). Childhood Rhetorical Exercises of the Victor of Vienna. [In:] Our Mythical Childhood... The Classics and Literature for Children and Young Adults. ed. Katarzyna Marciniak. "Metaforms" Volume 8. Leiden, Boston: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004335370
Morvin, David (2016). Aemulating Aesopus: Slovenian Fables and Fablers between Tradition and Innovation . [In:] Our Mythical Childhood... The Classics and Literature for Children and Young Adults. ed. Katarzyna Marciniak. "Metaforms" Volume 8. Leiden, Boston: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004335370
Murnaghan, Sheila (2015). Men into Pigs: Circe's Transformations in Versions of The Odyssey for Children. [In:] The Reception of Ancient Greece and Rome in Children's Literature. Heroes and Eagles. ed. Lisa Maurice. "Metaforms" Volume 6. Leiden, Boston: Brill.
Murnaghan, Sheila; Roberts, Deborah H. (2016). Armies of Children: War and Peace, Ancient History and Myth in Children's Books after World War One. [In:] Our Mythical Childhood... The Classics and Literature for Children and Young Adults. ed. Katarzyna Marciniak. "Metaforms" Volume 8. Leiden, Boston: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004335370
Murnaghan, Sheila; Roberts, Deborah H. (2018). Arachne's Web: the Reception of an Ovidian Myth in Works for Children. [In:] Classical Reception and Children's Literature: Greece, Rome and Childhood Transformation. ed. Owen Hodkinson, Helen Lovatt. London, New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic.
Murnaghan, Sheila; Roberts, Deborah H. (2018). Childhood and the Classics: Britain and America, 1850-1965. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Olechowska, Elżbieta (2016). J.K. Rowling Exposes the World to Classical Antiquity. [In:] Our Mythical Childhood... The Classics and Literature for Children and Young Adults. ed. Katarzyna Marciniak. "Metaforms" Volume 8. Leiden, Boston: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004335370
Paul, Joanna (2015). 'Time is only a mode of thought, you know': Ancient History, Imagination and Empire in E. Nesbit's Literature for Children. [In:] The Reception of Ancient Greece and Rome in Children's Literature. Heroes and Eagles. ed. Lisa Maurice. "Metaforms" Volume 6. Leiden, Boston: Brill.
Paulouskaya, Hanna (2016). An Attempt on Theseus by Kir Bulychev: Travelling to Virtual Antiquity. [In:] Our Mythical Childhood... The Classics and Literature for Children and Young Adults. ed. Katarzyna Marciniak. "Metaforms" Volume 8. Leiden, Boston: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004335370
Roberts, Deborah H. (2015). The Metamorphosis of Ovid in Retellings of Myth for Children. [In:] The Reception of Ancient Greece and Rome in Children's Literature. Heroes and Eagles. ed. Lisa Maurice. "Metaforms" Volume 6. Leiden, Boston: Brill.
Rogers, Brett M. (2017). Orestes and the Half-Blood Prince: Ghosts of Aeschylus in the Harry Potter Series. [In:] Classical Tradition in Modern Fantasy. ed. Brett M. Rogers, Benjamin Eldon Stevens. Oxford, New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Rudnicka, Ewa (2016). The Reception of Classical Antiquity in Polish Lexicography for Children and Young Adults. [In:] Our Mythical Childhood... The Classics and Literature for Children and Young Adults. ed. Katarzyna Marciniak. "Metaforms" Volume 8. Leiden, Boston: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004335370
Simatei, Peter T. (2016). A Gloss on Perspectives for the Study of African Literature versus Greek and Oriental Traditions. [In:] Our Mythical Childhood... The Classics and Literature for Children and Young Adults. ed. Katarzyna Marciniak. "Metaforms" Volume 8. Leiden, Boston: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004335370
Slater, Niall W. (2015). Classical Memories in C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia. [In:] The Reception of Ancient Greece and Rome in Children's Literature. Heroes and Eagles. ed. Lisa Maurice. "Metaforms" Volume 6. Leiden, Boston: Brill.
Slater, Niall W. (2018). The Horse, the Ass, and their Boys: C. S. Lewis and the Ending of Apuleius's Golden Ass. [In:] Classical Reception and Children's Literature: Greece, Rome and Childhood Transformation. ed. Owen Hodkinson, Helen Lovatt. London, New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic.
Stevens, Benjamin Eldon (2017). Ancient Underworlds in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. [In:] Classical Tradition in Modern Fantasy. ed. Brett M. Rogers, Benjamin Eldon Stevens. Oxford, New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Stroh, Wilfried (2016). From Aesop to Asterix Latinus: A Survey of Latin Books for Children. [In:] Our Mythical Childhood... The Classics and Literature for Children and Young Adults. ed. Katarzyna Marciniak. "Metaforms" Volume 8. Leiden, Boston: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004335370
Sucharski, Robert A. (2016). Jadwiga Zylinska's Fabulous Antiquity. [In:] Our Mythical Childhood... The Classics and Literature for Children and Young Adults. ed. Katarzyna Marciniak. "Metaforms" Volume 8. Leiden, Boston: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004335370
Syson, Antonia (2017). Filthy Harpies and Fictive Knowledge in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy. [In:] Classical Tradition in Modern Fantasy. ed. Brett M. Rogers, Benjamin Eldon Stevens. Oxford, New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Walde, Christine (2016). Graeco-Roman Antiquity and Its Productive Appropriation: The Example of Harry Potter. [In:] Our Mythical Childhood... The Classics and Literature for Children and Young Adults. ed. Katarzyna Marciniak. "Metaforms" Volume 8. Leiden, Boston: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004335370
Weinlich, Barbara (2015). The Metanarrative of Pictire Books: 'Reading' Greek Myth for (and to) Children. [In:] The Reception of Ancient Greece and Rome in Children's Literature. Heroes and Eagles. ed. Lisa Maurice. "Metaforms" Volume 6. Leiden, Boston: Brill.
Wood, Andelys (2018). Perspective Matters: Roman Britain in Children's Novels. [In:] Classical Reception and Children's Literature: Greece, Rome and Childhood Transformation. ed. Owen Hodkinson, Helen Lovatt. London, New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic.
Łukaszewicz, Adam (2016). Vitalis the Fox: Remarks on the Early Reading Experience of a Future Historian of Antiquity in Poland (1950s-1960s). [In:] Our Mythical Childhood... The Classics and Literature for Children and Young Adults. ed. Katarzyna Marciniak. "Metaforms" Volume 8. Leiden, Boston: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004335370