Topologies of the Classical World in Children's Fiction: Palimpsests, Maps, and Fractals (Classical Presences) - Image 1

£106.78

Oxford University Press Topologies of the Classical World in Children's Fiction: Palimpsests, Maps, and Fractals (Classical Presences)

Name: Topologies of the Classical World in Children's Fiction: Palimpsests, Maps, and Fractals (Classical Presences)
Brand: Oxford University Press
Price: 106.78 GBP
Availability: InStock

Children's Literature Studies

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

£107 today · previous high £107 · all-time low £103

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 90 days • 90 data points

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 90 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £103 (89 days, 98.9%)

Price range: £103 - £107

Price levels: 2 different prices over 90 days

Description

Beginning with Rudyard Kipling and Edith Nesbit and concluding with best-selling series still ongoing at the time of writing, this volume examines works of twentieth- and twenty-first-century children's literature that incorporate character types, settings, and narratives derived from the Greco-Roman past. Drawing on a cognitive poetics approach to reception studies, it argues that authors typically employ a limited and powerful set of spatial metaphors - palimpsest, map, and fractal - to organize the classical past for preteen and adolescent readers. Palimpsest texts see the past as a collection of strata in which each new era forms a layer superimposed upon a foundation laid earlier; map texts use the metaphor of the mappable journey to represent a protagonist's process of maturing while gaining knowledge of the self and/or the world; fractal texts, in which small parts of the narrative are thematically identical to the whole, present the past in a way that implies that history is infinitely repeatable. While a given text may embrace multiple metaphors in presenting the past, associations between dominant metaphors, genre, and outlook emerge from the case studies examined in each chapter, revealing remarkable thematic continuities in how the past is represented and how agency is attributed to protagonists: each model, it is suggested, uses the classical past to urge and thus perhaps to develop a particular approach to life.

Product Specifications

Brand: Oxford University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0198846037
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism > Children's Literature Studies
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 October 2019
Listed Since: 17 April 2019

Barcode

No barcode data available

Oxford University Press Topologies of the Classical World in Children's Fiction: Palimpsests, Maps, and Fractals (Classical Presences)

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Art Inspiring Transmutations of Life: 106 (Analecta Husserliana, 106)

Travel, Discovery, Transformation: Culture & Civilization

Travel and Ethics: Theory and Practice (Routledge Research in Travel Writing)

Oeuvres completes 1: Volume 1

Oeuvres completes 2: Volume 2

The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 12: 1960-2000: The Last of England?

Routledge - Travel, Discovery, Transformation: Culture & Civilization

Volkov:rise Of Popular Antimodernism In Germany: The Urban Master Artisans 1873¯1896 (Princeton Legacy Library)

Routledge - Beyond the Victorian/Modernist Divide Book

English Language Teaching in Moroccan Higher Education

International Relations and Heritage: Patchwork in Times of Plurality (The Latin American Studies Book Series)

Routledge - A Cultural History of the Modern Age, Vol 3

Journeying into Inner and Outer Landscapes: A daily poetic and photographic chronicle over one year

Distributed Cognition in Victorian Culture and Modernism (The Edinburgh History of Distributed Cognition)

Philip Roth: American Pastoral, the Human Stain, the Plot Against America (Continuum Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction)

The Writings of Henry David Thoreau – Early Essays and Miscellanies.: 5

Imperialism in the Modern World: Sources and Interpretations

Archaeology of Iran in the Historical Period (University of Tehran Science and Humanities Series)

Empire, Architecture, and the City: French-Ottoman Encounters, 1830-1914

The Palaces of Crete – Revised Edition: 5137 (Princeton Legacy Library)

Mid-Century Romance: Modernism, Socialist Culture, and the Historical Novel (Oxford Mid-Century Studies Series)