Persephone Myth in Young Adult Fiction

Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations

1. Introduction

PART I. THE REVALUATION OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY: THE MULTIPLE FACES OF PERSEPHONE FROM ANTIQUITY TO MODERNITY

2. Classical Persephone
3. From medieval Persephone to romantic Proserpine
4. Persephone in twentieth-century and nineteenth-century literature written in English

PART II. PERSEPHONE ADAPTED FOR YOUNG ADULT READERS: THE YOUNG WOMAN'S JOURNEY INTO ADULTHOOD

5. Persephone's revival in contemporary popular media and young adult culture
6. Mourning Persephone: adolescence and depression (Dangerous Spaces by Margaret Mahy)
7. Lost Persephone: adolescence and the inevitability of change (The Water's Edge by Louise Tondeur)
8. Sick Persephone: eating disorders and mental health (Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson)
9. Abducted Persephone: violence against young women (Bone Gap by Laura Ruby)
10. Persephone and toxic love: adolescence and infernal relationships (House of Women by Lynn Freed)
11. Searching Persephone: identity formation, self-esteem and gender violence (Psyche in a Dress by Francesca Lia Block)
12. From girl to woman: female rites of passage and underworld journeys
13. Conclusions

Notes
Bibliography
Index
Appendix: young adult rewritings of the Persephone myth in English literature from 1980 to 2023

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• As religiões antigas e mitologias
• Estudos literários: ficção, romancistas e escritores de prosa
• Textos clássicos
• Estudos de literatura infantil : geral

classics; ancient greece; rome; feminist; gender; identity; literature