“For the Children”
“For the Children”

Children's Columns in Australian Newspapers during the Great War – Mythic Hope, or Mythic Indoctrination?

Author(s): Marguerite Johnson
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: classical reception studies in Australia; classical reception studies and Australian children; classical reception studies and colonial Australia
Summary/Abstract: This article explores the inclusion of more adult issues in retellings of Greek myths in children’s columns in Australian newspapers with a focus on the topic of the Great War. The case study here is from the column “For the Children”, published in the Australian Christian Commonwealth on 25 September 1914. This was a weekly newspaper from South Australia, first published in 1901, with its title reflecting the federation of the Australian colonies into one nation that year.

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