TY - BOOK ID - 30255981 TI - Retelling stories, framing culture : traditional story and metanarratives in children's literature. AU - Stephens, John. AU - McCallum, Robyn PY - 2013 SN - 9780815312987 9780415836142 0815312989 9780203357750 041583614X 9781136601507 9781136601453 9781136601491 0203357752 1136601503 1283962268 113660149X PB - New York Routledge DB - UniCat KW - Fiction KW - Children's literature. Juvenile literature KW - literaire canon KW - mythologie (genre) KW - jeugdliteratuur KW - Children KW - Children's literature KW - Books and reading. KW - History and criticism. KW - 82-93 KW - 82-93 Kinderliteratuur. Jeugdliteratuur KW - Kinderliteratuur. Jeugdliteratuur KW - Books and reading for children KW - Reading interests of children KW - History and criticism KW - Books and reading KW - -Children's literature KW - -82-93 KW - Juvenile literature KW - Literature KW - Childhood KW - Kids (Children) KW - Pedology (Child study) KW - Youngsters KW - Age groups KW - Families KW - Life cycle, Human KW - literaire adaptatie KW - -Books and reading UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30255981 AB - What happens to traditional stories when they are retold in another time and cultural context and for a different audience? This first-of-its-kind study discusses Bible stories, classical myths, heroic legends, Arthurian romances, Robin Hood lore, folk tales, 'oriental' tales, and other stories derived from European cultures. One chapter is devoted to various retellings of classics, from Shakespeare to ""Wind in the Willows."" The authors offer a general theory of what motivates the retelling of stories, and how stories express the aspirations of a society. An important function of stories is to introduce children to a cultural heritage, and to transmit a body of shared allusions and experiences that expresses a society's central values and assumptions.However, the cultural heritage may be modified through a pervasive tendency of retellings to produce socially conservative outcomes because of ethnocentric, androcentric and class-based assumptions in the source stories that persist into retellings.Therefore, some stories, such as classical myths, are particularly resistant to feminist reinterpretations, for example, while other types, such as folktales, are more malleable.In examining such possibilities, the book evaluates the processes of interpretation apparent in retellings. ER -