Titlebook: Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy; Idealization, Identi Dimitra Fimi Book 2017 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)

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2753-0825 ing classic children’s books to contemporary fantasy authors.Runner-up of the Katherine Briggs Folklore Award 2017.Winner of the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth & Fantasy Studies 2019.This book examines the creative uses of “Celtic” myth in contemporary fantasy written for children or young ad

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Otherworldly Ireland: Pat O’Shea’s The Hounds of the Mórrígan and Kate Thompson’s The New Policemanndary world. These respective worlds, however, are soon identified as “mythical” versions of Ireland itself, populated by its legendary gods and heroes. The child-protagonists of both books, therefore, traverse a parallel Ireland, in which the landscapes they know so well become entwined with their national and cultural “Celtic” heritage.

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Welsh Heritage for Teenagers: Alan Garner, Jenny Nimmo, Catherine Fishere fantasy works reimagine (and have contemporary teenagers re-enact) particular scenes from Welsh legend in order to explore the transition from childhood to young adulthood in terms of personal, national, cultural, and class identity.

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Book 2017ys these fantasy works have appropriated and adapted Irish and Welsh medieval literature in order to highlight different perceptions of “Celticity.” The term “Celtic” itself is interrogated in light of recent debates in Celtic studies, in order to explore a fictional representation of a national past that is often romanticized and political..

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