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BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF CRITICAL STUDIES
Myths and legends, including Arthurian, Quest and Grail literature

These titles study the uses of myth in children's literature, whether as motif or scenario.  Particular note is made of the legends of King Arthur in British tradition, and of the Hero quest.

The call number is to the text held in the Heyward Library.

Geoffrey Ashe, The discovery of King Arthur, New York : H. Holt, 1987, c1985
hmc 942.014 ASHE 

Richard Barber, King Arthur : hero and legend, Woodbridge, Suffolk : Boydell, 1986
hmc 809.93351 BARB
 

Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Women who run with the wolves: contacting the power of the wild woman, London : Rider, 1993
hmc 398.082 ESTE

Kevin Crossley-Holland , The king who was and will be : the world of King Arthur and his knights, London : Dolphin, 1999, c1998
hlnf 398.220941 CROS
 

Patrick Curry, Defending Middle-Earth : Tolkien : myth & modernity, London : HarperCollins, 1998
hmc 823.912 TOLK/C
 

John Darrah, Paganism in Arthurian romance, Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 1997
hmc 809.93351 DARR
 

Sara Douglass, The betrayal of Arthur, Sydney : Macmillan, 1999
hmc 809.93351 DOUG
 

Norma Lorre Goodrich , Merlin, New York : Harper & Row, 1988
hmc 809.93351 GOOD
 

N.J. Higham, King Arthur : myth-making and history, London ; New York : Routledge, 2002
hmc 942.014 HIGH
 

Emma Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz, Graalslegende in psychologischer Sicht. [English] The grail legend, Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1998, c1970
hmc 809.915 JUNG
 

Mary R. Lefkowitz, Women in Greek myth, London : Bristol Classical Paperbacks, 1995
hmc 880.9352 LEFK
 

Roger Sherman Loomis, Celtic myth and Arthurian romance, New York : Haskell House, 1967
hmc 891.6 LOOM
 

Barbara Tepa Lupack, Adapting the Arthurian legends for children: essays on Arthurian juvenilia, New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
hmc 809.93351 ADAP

David Maher, The quest in legend and literature, Rozelle, N.S.W. : St Clair Press, 1999
hmc 398.22 MAHE
 

Jean Markale, Roi Arthur et la société celtique. [English] King of the Celts : Arthurian legends and the Celtic tradition, Rochester, Vt. : Inner Traditions, 1994
hmc 942.014 MARK
 

John Stephens, Robyn McCallum, Retelling stories, framing culture : traditional story and metanarratives in children's literature, New York : Garland Pub., 1998
hmc 809.89282 STEP
 

Thomas Van Nortwick, Somewhere I have never travelled : the hero's journey, New York : Oxford University Press, 1996
hmc 883.01 VANN
 

Donna White, A Century of Welsh Myth in Children's Literature, Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998
hmc 809.89282 WHIT

Jack Zipes , Fairy tale as myth/myth as fairy tale, Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c1994
hmc 398.21 ZIPE

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