Taylor and Frances (Routledge) is pleased to announce that the paperback edition of Retelling Stories, Framing Culture: Traditional Story and Metanarratives in Children’s Literature has now been released. Retelling Stories anticipated the current critical interest in adaptation by almost a decade and was, I think, the first general theory of adaptation in children’s literature, so I’m very pleased that it is now readily available (@ £23.50). A list of the chapter titles is pasted in below.
John Stephens
1. Pre-texts, Metanarratives, and the Western Metaethic
2. Authority, Wisdom, and Cultural Heritage:
Biblical Literature as Pre‑text
3. Classical Mythology: The Mystery Underlying Everyday Things?
4. Distinction, Individuality, Sociality: Patterns for a Heroic Life
5. An Affirmation of Civilization against Barbarism:
Arthur and Arthurianism in Medievalist and Quasi-medieval Romance
6. The Boys in the Greenwood: Stories of Robin Hood
7. Folktale and Metanarratives of Female Agency
8. The Idea of the Orient: Stories and Motifs from The Arabian Nights
9. Reversions of Early Modern Classics
Bibliography
Index
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John Stephens
Emeritus Professor in English
Macquarie University
Editor, International Research in Children's Literature
http://www.euppublishing.com/journal/ircl
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