Our Mythical Childhood...
The Reception of Classical Antiquity in Children’s and Young Adults’ Culture in Response to Regional and Global Challenges
Publications
“Lekcje latania, czyli ekologia interdyscyplinarności w programie Our Mythical Childhood” [Flying Lessons, or the Ecology of Interdisciplinarity in the Programme Our Mythical Childhood]
Open Access soon
“Du Rubicon à la chambre d’enfants: la réception de l’expression Alea iacta est dans la culture contemporaine des jeunes”
"Starożytna femme fatale na wielkim ekranie – ewolucja wizerunku Kleopatry do roku 1954" [The Ancient Femme Fatale on the Silver Screen – Evolution of Cleopatra’s Image until 1954]
Our Mythical Education: The Reception of Classical Myth Worldwide in Formal Education, 1900–2020, in the series “Our Mythical Childhood”, Warsaw: Warsaw University Press, 2021, pp. 579
See here for more about Our Mythical Education
“Wizerunek bogini łowiectwa Artemidy we współczesnej literaturze dziecięcej i młodzieżowej inspirowanej antykiem” [The Image of Artemis, Goddess of the Hunt, in Contemporary Literature for Children and Adolescents Inspired by Antiquity]
For the whole volume see here
“Mythical Sanctuaries of the Wizarding World: The Ancient Classical Concepts of Animal Protection in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Universe”
“Metamorphoses of Medusa: The Reception of the Gorgon in 21st-century Culture for Children and Young Adults”
"libri liberorom: Fachzeitschrift für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung" 54-55, 2020, pp. 47-82
“Into the Wild Childhood: A Study of Wildness in Three 21st-Century Picturebooks”
Dzieciństwo. Literatura i Kultura [Chidhood. Literature and Culture], 2(2) 2020, pp. 54-72
A voice in the panel discussion by Andrea Balbo, Katarzyna Marciniak, Jerzy Axer, David Movrin, Ermanno Malaspina, and Markus Janka, “The Formation of Civil Society: Cicero’s Role in artes liberales Education Today”
“It Never Hurts to Keep Looking for Sunshine: The Motif of Depression in Works for Children and Youth Inspired by Classical Antiquity”
"Potworne, zwierzęce, kobiece - syreny. Kobieco-rybie hybrydy w kulturze dla najmłodszych na wybranych przykładach" [Monstrous, Animalistic, Female - Sirens. Women-fish Hybrids in Culture for the Youngsters on Selected Examples]
„Dorobek na zawsze” – antyczna odpowiedź na stare i nowe pytania [“A Possession For Ever” – An Ancient Answer to Old and New Questions]
Chasing Mythical Beasts: The Reception of Ancient Monsters in Children’s and Young Adults’ Culture, in the series “Studien zur europäischen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur / Studies in European Children’s and Young Adult Literature” 8, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2020, 623 pp.
See here for more about this book
“WhatsApp-based Learning in Ecole Normale Supérieure de Yaoundé-Cameroon at the Time of Coronavirus”
International Journal of TESOL Studies 2(3), 2020, pp. 13–31
“Autism and Classical Myth: Choosing with the Froebel College Hercules”
Primary Schools Partnership June Newsletter, London: University of Roehampton, 2020, 14–16
For the whole Newsletter see here
“Sappho 44: Creativity and Pedagogy with Ancient Poetry, Pottery, and Modern Animation”
“Death as a Beginning: The Transformation of Hades, Persephone, and Cleopatra in Children’s and Youth Culture”
“Nie tylko Pinokio. Dwa głosy o włoskiej literaturze dziecięcej i młodzieżowej na polskim rynku wydawniczym” [Not only Pinocchio: A Double Voice on Italian Children’s and Young Adult Literature on the Polish Publishing Market]
Dzieciństwo. Literatura i Kultura [Childhood: Literature and Culture] 1(2) 2019, pp. 251–262
“To India and Lithuania through Soviet Picture Books” [a review article]
Dzieciństwo. Literatura i Kultura [Childhood: Literature and Culture] 1(2) 2019, pp. 242–250
“Kleopatra niejedną ma twarz – recepcja postaci egipskiej władczyni w kulturze dziecięcej i młodzieżowej” [“Many Faces of Cleopatra – Reception of Egyptian Queen In the Children and Youth Culture”]
Mitologiczne zaświaty w XXI wieku. Katabaza w powieści Ricka Riordana „Percy Jackson i bogowie olimpijscy” [Mythological Underworld in the 21st Century. The Katabasis in Rick Riordan’s Novel “Percy Jackson & the Olympians”]
“Na Ozyrysa, pokażę Wam, jak umiera królowa... Recepcja mitu śmierci Kleopatry VII w filmach z XX i XXI wieku” [“By Osiris, I show you how a queen dies... The Reception of Cleopatra’s Death in the 20th- and 21st-century Movies”]
"Disability, Race, and the Black Satyr of the United State of America: The Case of Grover Underwood from Rick Riordan’s The Lighting Thief and Its Film Adaptation by Chris Columbus"
Dzieciństwo. Literatura i Kultura [Childhood: Literature and Culture] 1, 2019, pp. 130–146
"Disnejowski sen Alicji i rzeczy, które możemy w nim odnaleźć" [“Alice’s Disney Dream and Things That We Can Find There”]
"Tam, ale nie z powrotem. Pinokio Carla Collodiego i Dziwoląg Potężny Rodmana Philbricka o nieodwracalności metamorfozy" [“There, But Not Back Again. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi and Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick on the Irreversibility of a Metamorphosis”]
De viris mulieribusque illustribus: Schools Endeavour Educational Materials
Мифические мультики или Классическая древность в советской анимации для детей [Mythical Cartoons or Presence of the Classical Antiquity in Soviet Animation for Children]
Od herosa do "superbohatera", od "potwora" do celebryty. Disnejowski Herkules w drodze na popkulturowy Olimp [From Hero to "Superhero", from "Monster" to Celebrity. Disney's Hercules on his Way to the Pop Culture Olympus]
Kultura Popularna 3 (49), 2016, pp. 14–23 ; DOI: 10.5604/01.3001.0009.8041
(Nie tylko) kolonialne "zaklęcia" i jak je znaleźć. Magia w Ameryce Północnej według J. K. Rowling [(Not only) Colonial "Spells" and how to Find them. Magic in North America According to J. K. Rowling]
Czy/Tam/Czy/Tu. Literatura dziecięca i jej konteksty 1, 2017, pp. 52–77
„Śmierć będzie ostatnim wrogiem, który zostanie zniszczony”. Dziecko – horkruks w cyklu o Harrym Potterze J. K. Rowling [“The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.” The Child-Horcrux in Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling]
Śmierć w literaturze dziecięcej i młodzieżowej [ Death in Literature for Children and Young Adults ], ed. by Katarzyna Slany, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo SBP, 2018, pp. 215–228
Et in Arcadia Ferdinand: The Mythical Victory of an Extraordinary Bull
Spain–India–Russia: Centres, Borderlands, and Peripheries of Civilisations. Anniversary Book Dedicated to Professor Jan Kieniewicz on His 80th Birthday , ed. by Jan Stanisław Ciechanowski and Cristina González Caizán, Warsaw: Faculty of “Artes Liberales” of the University of Warsaw– Wydawnictwo Naukowe Sub Lupa, 2018, pp. 247–262
Cicerone – il più grande dei poeti
Ciceroniana On Line: A Journal of Roman Thought II, 1, 2018, pp. 105–161
Magizoology: The Magical Creatures Studies J.K. Rowling's Postulates on Animals in ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’ on Examples from Graeco-Roman Mythology
Forthcoming:
2022
Katarzyna Marciniak, red. Our Mythical Hope: The Ancient Myths as a Medicine for the Hardships of Life in Children’s and Young Adults’ Culture, in the series “Our Mythical Childhood”, Warsaw: Warsaw University Press, 2021:
- Katarzyna Marciniak, “What Is a Mythical Hope in Children’s and Young Adults’ Culture?, or: Sharing the Light”
- Part I: Playing with the Past”
- Veronique Dasen, “Playing with Life Uncertainties”
- Rachel Bryant Davies, Queen Mary University of London, “‘Steeds of Magical Capacity’: The Trojan Horse as Children’s Toy since the Nineteenth Century”
- Part II: The Roots of Hope
- Katarzyna Jerzak, “Myth and Suffering in Modern Culture: The Mythical Chronotope from Oscar Wilde to Woodkid”
- Marguerite Johnson, “‘For the Children’: Children’s Columns in Australian Newspapers during the Great War: Mythic Hope or Mythic Indoctrination?”
- Jan Kieniewicz, “Bandar-log in Action: the Polish Children’s Experience of Disaster in Literature and Mythology”
- Simon J.G. Burton and Marilyn E. Burton, “Mythical Delight and Playfulness in C.S. Lewis’ Till We Have Faces and Chronicles of Narnia”
- Part III: Holding Out for a Hero... and a Heroine
- Nick Lowe, “How to Become a Hero?”
- Robert A. Sucharski, “Joe Alex (Maciej Słomczyński) and His Czarne okręty [The Black Ships]: A History of a Trojan Boy in Times of the Minoan Thalassocracy”
- Michael Stierstorfer, “From an Adolescent Freak to a Hope Spreading Messianic Demigod: The Curious Transformations of Modern Teenagers in Actual Mythopoetic Fantasy Literature”
- Markus Janka, “Hercules as Hero of Hopeful Culture in Ancient Poetry and Contemporary Media for Children and Young Adults”
- Susan Deacy, “Hercules and the Autistic Imagination: Introducing the ‘Autism’ Strand of Our Mythical Childhood”
- Edoardo Pecchini, “Promoting Mental Health through Classics: Hercules as Trainer in Today’s Labours of Children and Young People”
- Krishni Burns, “La Fontaine’s Reeds: Adapting Greek Myths to Model Resilience”
- Part IV: Hope after Tragedy
- Deborah H. Roberts and Sheila Murnaghan, “New Hope for Old Stories: Yiyun Li’s Gilgamesh and Ali Smith’s Antigone”
- Edith Hall, “Our Greek Tragic Hope: Young Adults Overcoming Family Trauma in New Novels by Natalie Haynes and Colm Tóibín”
- Hanna Paulouskaya, “Soviet Cinematic Tragedies as a Help in Growing Up”
- Daniel A. Nkemleke and Divine Che Neba, “Ayi Kwei Armah’s Two Thousand Seasons and Osiris Rising as Pan-African Epics”
- Part V: Brand New Hope
- Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, “The Utopia of an Ideal Community: Reconsidering the Myth of Atlantis in James Gurney’s Dinotopia Novels”
- Elizabeth Hale, “Mystery, Childhood and Meaning in Ursula Dubosarsky’s The Golden Day”
- Babette Puetz, “When is a Robot a Human? – Hope, Myth and Humanity in Bernard Beckett’s Genesis”
- Helen Lovatt, “Hungry and Hopeful: Greek Myths and Children of the Future in Mike Carey’s Melanie Stories”
- Lisa Maurice, “From Joppa to Jaffa: Percy Jackson and Israeli Fanfiction: A Case Study”
- Katerina Volioti, “Images of Hope: The Visual Language of the Gods in Greek Books for Young Children”
- Ayelet Peer, “Growing Up Manga Style”
- Elżbieta Olechowska, “Between Hope and Destiny in Young Adults Television Series
- Once Upon a Time, Season 5, Episodes 12–21 (2016)”
- Anna Mik, “Et in (Disney) Arcadia Ego: In Search for Hope in the 1940 Fantasia”
- Part VI: Behold Hope All Ye Who Enter Here...
- Jerzy Axer, “Kotick the Saviour: From Inferno to Paradise with Animals”
- Krzysztof Rybak, “All Is (Not) Lost: Myth in the Shadow of the Holocaust in Bezsenność Jutki [Jutka’s Insomnia] by Dorota Combrzyńska-Nogala”
- Owen Hodkinson, “Orphic Resonances of Love and Loss in David Almond’s A Song for Ella Grey”
- Katarzyna Marciniak, “‘I Found Hope Again that Night...’: The Orphean Quest of Beauty and the Beast”
Susan Deacy, The Choices of Hercules: Mythology and Autism Reconaissance, in the series “Our Mythical Childhood”, Warsaw: Warsaw University Press, 2022
Elizabeth Hale in collaboration with Miriam Riverlea, Classical Mythology and Children’s Literature: An Alphabetical Odyssey, in the series “Our Mythical Childhood”, Warsaw: Warsaw University Press, 2022
Katarzyna Marciniak, ed., Our Mythical History: Children’s and Young Adults’ Culture in Response to the Heritage of Ancient Greece and Rome, in the series “Our Mythical Childhood”, Warsaw: Warsaw University Press, 2022
- Katarzyna Marciniak, “What Is the Ancient History in Children’s and Young Adults’ Culture?”
- Part I: Ancient History – Our Histories
- Lisa Maurice, “Reading the Graeco-Roman World from Right to Left: The Portrayal of Greeks and Romans in Jewish Children’s Fiction”
- Valentina Garulli, “The Irresistible Charm of History: Laura Orvieto’s Narrative on Historical Themes”
- Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, “The most splendid guy of ancient history: Facts and Fiction on Spartacus in German Children’s Literature”
- Sonja Schreiner, “Reduced to Stereotypes vs. Historical Realism: Ancient People in Children’s Literature in the 1950s and in the Third Millennium”
- Part II: Young and Old between Rebellion and Admiration
- Katarzyna Jerzak, “Mark Twain’s Innocents Abroad (1869): An Irreverent Look of the New World Upon the Old”
- Hanna Paulouskaya, “The Lives of Remarkable Ancients for Use of Soviet Youth”
- Edoardo Pecchini, “Promoting Mental Health through Classics: Icarus’ Flight”
- Sheila Murnaghan, “Champion of History, Inveterate Liar: Biographies of Heinrich Schliemann for Young Readers”
- Part III: Once Upon a Time and Today in Greece and Beyond
- Deborah H. Roberts, “The Gadfly and Athenian Girlhood: Socrates in Historical Fiction for Children”
- Robert A. Sucharski, “Witold Makowiecki and His Two Novels on the Mediterranean in the Sixth Century BC”
- Przemysław Kaniecki and Przemysław Kordos, “Ancient History in Contemporary Modern Greek Comics”
- Krishni Burns, “Spectacular Colonialism: Naumachia in Children of Blood and Bone”
- Daniel A. Nkemleke, Divine Che Neba, and Eleanor A. Dasi, “Mythic Fulfillment and Performance in the Bafut Abinimfor and the Greek Dionysian Festivals”
- Part IV: The Romans Rule!
- Ayelet Peer, “He Came, He Saw, He Conquered Hollywood: Julius Caesar in Popular Culture”
- Markus Janka, “Rejuvenating Heroes of Roman History in Robert Harris’ Novels and HBO’s Rome”
- Raimund Fichtel, “The Birth of the Suetonian Nero from the Spirit of Mythology and Its Modern Variations”
- Part V: Playing with Ancient History
- Rachel Bryant-Davies, “A nobler entertainment: Graeco-Roman History in British Children's Toys and Games, ca. 1750–1914”
- Karolina Kulpa, “Caesar and Cleopatra unite Rome and Egypt: (Re)creating and Playing with Ancient History on the Playmobil Series”
- Véronique Dasen and Ulrich Schädler, “Gods, Heroes, and Monuments: Greek and Roman Antiquity in Games”
- Elizabeth Hale, “Funny Bones: Archaeology, Humour, and Australian Children’s Books”
- Owen Hodkinson, “Groovy Greeks, Rotten and Ruthless Romans: The Classical Past in the Horrible Histories Series”
- Elżbieta Olechowska, “Ancient History in DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Season 3, Episodes 1, 6, 18 (‘Aruba-Con’, ‘Helen Hunt’, ‘The Good, the Bad, and the Cuddly’)”
- Krzysztof Rybak, “Our Honeyed History: The Ancient World in Pszczoły [The Book of Bees] and Drzewa [The Book of Trees] by Piotr Socha and Wojciech Grajkowski”
- Part VI: Between Myth and History
- Edith Hall, “Secular Ethics for Junior Socialists: F.J. Gould on Ancient History, 1906–1913”
- Nick Lowe, “Children of History: Situating Youth Consciousness in Fictional Greek Antiquity”
- Jerzy Axer, “‘By Oak, Ash, and Thorn!’: The Meaning of the Lessons in Roman History with Puck of Pook’s Hill”
- Jan Kieniewicz, “The Knight without Fear and beyond Reproach: The Hero Myth in Partitioned Poland”
- Karoline Thaidigsmann, “Post-Socialist Identity between Slavic Gods, the Graeco-Roman Tradition and Western Christianity. A Reading of Dorota Terakowska’s Crossover Novel Samotność bogów [The Loneliness of the Gods]”
- Katarzyna Marciniak, “The Once and Future Antiquity: Greek and Roman Heritage in the BBC’s Merlin”
Katarzyna Marciniak, ed., Our Mythical Nature: The Classics and Environmental Issues in Children’s and Young Adults’ Culture, in the series “Our Mythical Childhood”, Warsaw: Warsaw University Press, 2022 (Table of Contents TBA)
Anna Mik, “Why Centaurs Do Not Rape Anymore? Looking for Sexuality in Contemporary Children’s and Young Adult Culture Inspired by Antiquity” in: Susan Deacy, ed., Sexual Violence in the Greek and Roman World, London: Bloomsbury, 2022
Elżbieta Olechowska, Ancient Classical Themes Serialized for Young and Crossover Audiences of the 21st Century, Warsaw 2022
Hanna Paulouskaya, “Soviet Argonauts: Sailing to the Coasts of Colchis in the Soviet Films”, in: Richard Cole, Penelope Kolovou, and Markus Stachon, eds., Classical Antiquity in Our World, 2022
Dorota Rejter, “The Consequences of Avoiding the Topic of Rape in Children’s Stories about Medusa”, in: Susan Deacy, ed., Sexual Violence in the Greek and Roman World, London: Bloomsbury, 2022