Variations of the Hero's Journey in Contemporary British, French and Australian Picture Books about the Great War
Reimagining the Horrors of the Past
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 30 September 2025
- ISBN 9781032720562
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages166 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 4 Illustrations, black & white; 4 Line drawings, black & white 700
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Short description:
This book is grounded in the belief that every nation had its own ‘Great War’, with children’s picture books being an important barometer of each country’s national approach. This book will be of interest to both students and researchers in the fields of children's literature, literary theory, history, cultural studies and education.
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This book is grounded in the belief that every nation had its own ‘Great War’, and that children’s picture books are an important barometer of each country’s national approach.
To explore the depiction of the Great War in Australian, British, and French modern children’s picture books, where this historical event is reimagined in different ways as a futile conflict, a painful victory, and as part of one country's founding mythology, this book uses the concept of the hero's journey as underlying framework. It claims that this monomythic pattern, as developed by Joseph Campbell and modified by Christopher Vogler, not only informs all picture books selected for this project but can also be used to highlight the extent to which modern children’s picture book authors and illustrators conform to their respective nation’s cultural memory.
It further maintains that the specific historical context of the Great War in these children's picture books can be used to identify a variant of the hero's journey: the 'ordinary soldier's journey.’ This analysis of children's picture books about the Great War through the lens of Campbell's hero's journey will be of interest to both students and researchers in the fields of children's literature, literary theory, history, cultural studies and education.
MoreTable of Contents:
1. Introduction 2. Cultural Memory, the Historical Picture Book, and the Concept of the Hero’s Journey 3. British Historical Picture Books: Promoting Peace in Times of War 4. French Historical Picture Books: Reimagining the Horrors of the Battlefield 5. Australian Historical Picture Books: Commemorating A National Memory 6. Conclusion
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