Descent Narratives in English and French Children's Literature
by
Kiera Vaclavik
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"The descent to the underworld is one of our oldest stories. It recurs in the most influential texts of early European literature - the Odyssey , the Aeneid , the Inferno - and no less so in the classics of children's literature. Vaclavik shows that retellings for young readers certainly shift...