Lekcje latania, czyli ekologia interdyscyplinarności w programie „Our Mythical Childhood”
Flying Lessons, or the Ecology of Interdisciplinarity in the Programme “Our Mythical Childhood”. Abstract

Author(s): Katarzyna Marciniak
Subject(s): Anthropology, Cultural history, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Our Mythical Childhood; Classical Antiquity; reception; Luis Sepúlveda; Enzo D’Alò; children’s literature
Summary/Abstract: This chapter presents the concept of “ecology” as a cultural community, one pillar of which is Classical Antiquity. The author discusses this issue by analyzing the reception of Greek myths in the novel by the Chilean writer Luis Sepúlveda "The Story about a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly" and its animated film adaptation by the Italian director Enzo D’Alò. Reflections on these two cultural texts are placed in the broad context of the ideas advanced by the interdisciplinary research programme “Our Mythical Childhood”, created in 2011 by the author, who continues to run it at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” of the University of Warsaw by leading an international team of specialists in such disciplines as childhood studies, classical philology, modern literatures, archaeology, history, folk studies, education, media studies, and children’s neuropsychiatry.

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