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GREEK MYTHOLOGY IN THE WORKS OF THOMAS BULFINCH AND GUSTAV SCHWAB
Nathaniel Hawthorne's A Wonder-Book for Boys and Girls and Charles Kingsley's anthology The Greek Heroes were not the first collections of myth directed at children, but they were the first that presented the myths as stories rather than as useful information, on a par with history and geography. Evidently, people continue to think that there is a place for anthologies of myth in children's literature. Children's literature, however, is a notoriously problematic category since it is defined not by content, form, or authorship, but by implied or actual readership. People have to bear in mind that the child reader, like the child in the text, is inevitably the construction of the adult writer, and of that writer's cultural context. To find out what the various anthologists of myth for children see in myth that makes it appropriate to children, and what conception of childhood does this view entail, Roberts compares two pioneers in this area, Hawthorne and Kingsley. She then considers briefly the extent to which later treatments of myth for children maintain, dismiss, or transform the concerns and choices of these two writers, and conclude with some comments on two fundamental shifts in some of the most recent collections.
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Verbal Adjectives in Sophocles: Necessity and Morality
Schein briefly surveys Sophocles' use of verbal adjectives in his plays and discusses their dramatic and moral significance, with special emphasis on \"Ajax,\" \"Electra,\" and \"Philocetes.\" Schein argues that consideration of verbal adjectives leads one into the central ethical themes and problems of the plays.
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