What Is Mythical Hope in Children's and Young Adults’ Culture? – or: Sharing the Light
What Is Mythical Hope in Children's and Young Adults’ Culture? – or: Sharing the Light

Author(s): Katarzyna Marciniak
Subject(s): Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010)
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: hope; childhood; Pandora; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Martin Luther King Jr.; Beauty and the Beast; ancient Greek poetry
Summary/Abstract: The chapter offers reflection on Classical Antiquity as a particularly important source for “Hope studies”. Beginning with Nathaniel Hawthorne’s retelling of Pandora’s myth, we travel beyond time and space – there and back again through poetry, prose, and art – in order to find the roots of Hope and to understand her multiple denotations. The chapter also introduces readers to the whole of the volume focused on showing how the authors of literary and audiovisual texts for children and young adults make use of ancient myths to support their young protagonists on the roads leading to adulthood and to create a powerful, uplifting message for the public.

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