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The Myth of Persephone in Girls' Fantasy Literature

2012 Taylor & Francis ;ISBN: 0415895413 ;ISBN: 9780415895415 ;ISBN: 1138793493 ;ISBN: 9781138793491 ;EISBN: 1136644288 ;EISBN: 9781136644283 ;EISBN: 9780203804896 ;EISBN: 0203804899 ;EISBN: 0415895413 ;EISBN: 9781136644276 ;EISBN: 9780415895415 ;EISBN: 113664427X ;DOI: 10.4324/9780203804896 ;OCLC: 798531580

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  • Title:
    The Myth of Persephone in Girls' Fantasy Literature
  • Author: Blackford, Holly
  • Subjects: Child psychology in literature ; Children's ; Children's Literature ; Children's stories ; Children's stories, American ; Children's stories, English ; Fantasy ; Fantasy fiction, American ; Fantasy fiction, English ; Gender Studies - Soc Sci ; Girl ; Girls in literature ; Greek History & Culture ; Literature & Gender Studies ; Myth ; Myth in literature ; Persephone ; Persephone (Greek deity) in literature
  • Description: In this book, Blackford historicizes the appeal of the Persephone myth in the nineteenth century and traces figurations of Persephone, Demeter, and Hades throughout girls’ literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She illuminates developmental patterns and anxieties in E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Nutcracker and Mouse King, Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, J. M. Barrie’s Peter and Wendy, Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden, E. B. White’s Charlotte’s Web, J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight, and Neil Gaiman’s Coraline. The story of the young goddess’s separation from her mother and abduction into the underworld is, at root, an expression of ambivalence about female development, expressed in the various Neverlands through which female protagonists cycle and negotiate a partial return to earth. The myth conveys the role of female development in the perpetuation and renewal of humankind, coordinating natural and cultural orders through a hieros gamos (fertility coupling) rite. Meanwhile, popular novels such as Twilight and Coraline are paradoxically fresh because they recycle goddesses from myths as old as the seasons. With this book, Blackford offers a consideration of how literature for the young squares with broader canons, how classics flexibly and uniquely speak through novels that enjoy broad appeal, and how female traditions are embedded in novels by both men and women.
  • Publisher: Oxford: Routledge
  • Creation Date: 2012
  • Format: 260
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 0415895413
    ISBN: 9780415895415
    ISBN: 1138793493
    ISBN: 9781138793491
    EISBN: 1136644288
    EISBN: 9781136644283
    EISBN: 9780203804896
    EISBN: 0203804899
    EISBN: 0415895413
    EISBN: 9781136644276
    EISBN: 9780415895415
    EISBN: 113664427X
    DOI: 10.4324/9780203804896
    OCLC: 798531580
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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