La Fontaine's Reeds: Adapting Greek Mythical Heroines to Model Resilience
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- 1. Faculty of "Artes Liberales", University of Warsaw, Poland
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This chapter explores the behaviors and attitudes displayed by female characters in juvenile novelizations of Greek myths that promote psychological resilience. Four novels are analyzed using the American Psychological Association’s guidelines for the promotion of resiliency in children and youth. Two novels focus on the Trojan cycle, Inside the Walls of Troy: A Novel of the Women Who Lived the Trojan War by Clemence McLaren and Goddess of Yesterday by Caroline Cooney, while the other two, Lost in the Labyrinth: A Novel by Patrice Kindl and Dark of the Moon by Tracy Barrett, adapt the Minotaur myth. In each case, the female main characters experience traumatic events, but use recognized psychological coping mechanisms to endure with fortitude.
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