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dc.contributor.authorHale, Elizabethen
local.source.editorEditor(s): Lisa Mauriceen
dc.date.accessioned2015-10-02T15:23:00Z-
dc.date.issued2015-
dc.identifier.citationThe Reception of Ancient Greece and Rome in Children's Literature: Heroes and Eagles, p. 17-29en
dc.identifier.isbn9789004298590en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/17958-
dc.description.abstractWhen Alice meets a mouse in Wonderland, she addresses it politely as "O Mouse", using the vocative case that she has learned from looking in her brother's Latin grammar: "A mouse - of a mouse - to a mouse - a mouse - O mouse!" (Carroll, 1865, 26) Perhaps unsurprisingly, the mouse does not acknowledge Alice. In Wonderland, Latin grammar books may not provide much of a useful guide for starting conversations. Surface jokes aside, 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' is deeply classical, being a katabasis, a journey to, and return from, the underworld. (The term comes, of course, from the Greek word for 'down'; a katabasis then, is a journey down, frequently used to refer to journeys to the underworld; its opposite, anabasis, is a journey 'up', often used to refer to a journey inland - to the interior of a country, for example.) In falling down the rabbit hole to an underground otherworld, Alice travels an archetypal path, following in the footsteps of other travelers in the classical underworld such as Aeneas, Odysseus, Orpheus, and Persephone. There is a difference: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' is comic, satiric, and focuses on the adventures of a little girl, rather than a king, a princess, or an epic hero. Nevertheless, in negotiating the curious and dangerous logic of Wonderland, in resisting the challenges to her intellect, sanity, and ultimately her life, Alice journeys successfully through a child's version of Hades, returning safely to the sunny meadow where she drowses with her older sister. These two examples from 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' show some different ways that classical influences and classical reception can operate in a work of children's literature.en
dc.languageenen
dc.publisherBrillen
dc.relation.ispartofThe Reception of Ancient Greece and Rome in Children's Literature: Heroes and Eaglesen
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dc.titleClassics, Children's Literature, and the Character of Childhood, from 'Tom Brown's Schooldays' to 'The Enchanted Castle'en
dc.typeBook Chapteren
dc.subject.keywordsLatin and Classical Greek Literatureen
dc.subject.keywordsBritish and Irish Literatureen
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local.subject.for2008200510 Latin and Classical Greek Literatureen
local.subject.for2008200503 British and Irish Literatureen
local.subject.seo2008950203 Languages and Literatureen
local.subject.seo2008950504 Understanding Europes Pasten
local.profile.schoolSchool of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciencesen
local.profile.emailehale@une.edu.auen
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local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
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local.publisher.placeLeiden, Netherlandsen
local.identifier.totalchapters13en
local.format.startpage17en
local.format.endpage29en
local.contributor.lastnameHaleen
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local.title.maintitleClassics, Children's Literature, and the Character of Childhood, from 'Tom Brown's Schooldays' to 'The Enchanted Castle'en
local.output.categorydescriptionB1 Chapter in a Scholarly Booken
local.relation.urlhttp://trove.nla.gov.au/version/212894654en
local.search.authorHale, Elizabethen
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local.year.published2015en
local.subject.for2020470513 Latin and classical Greek literatureen
local.subject.for2020470504 British and Irish literatureen
local.subject.seo2020130203 Literatureen
local.subject.seo2020130704 Understanding Europe’s pasten
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