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Our Mythical Childhood...: The Classics and Literature for Children and Young Adults 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 List of Figures 10 Notes on Contributors 11 What Is a Classic... for Children and Young Adults? 18 PART 1: In Search of Our Roots: Classical References as a Shaper of Young Readers’ Identity 44 1: From Aesop to Asterix Latinus: A Survey of Latin Books for Children 46 2: Childhood Rhetorical Exercises of the Victor of Vienna 52 3: 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 61 4: A Latin Lesson for Bad Boys, or: Kipling’s Tale of the Enchanted Bird 72 5: Laura Orvieto and the Classical Heritage in Italy before the Second World War 82 6: Saul Tchernichowsky’s Mythical Childhood: Homeric Allusions in the Idyll “Elka’s Wedding” 128 7: Jadwiga Żylińska’s Fabulous Antiquity 137 8: A Child among the Ruins: Some Thoughts on Contemporary Modern Greek Literature for Children 144 9: The Reception of Classical Antiquity in Polish Lexicography for Children and Young Adults 160 PART 2: The Aesop Complex: The Transformations of Fables in Response to Regional Challenges 186 1

Author

Katarzyna Marciniak

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