Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy

Dimitra Fimi is Senior Lecturer in English at Cardiff Metropolitan University, Wales, UK. Her monograph Tolkien, Race and Cultural History won the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inklings Studies. She is co-editor A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages. She lectures on fantasy, children’s literature, and medievalism.

• 1.Introduction.- Part I. Irish Myth.- 2. Otherworldly Ireland.- 3. Celticity and the Irish Diaspora.- Part II. Welsh Myth.- 4. Lloyd Alexander’s 'The Chronicles of Prydain'.- 5. Welsh Heritage for Teenagers.- 6. Susan Cooper and the Arthur of the Welsh.- 7. Conclusion.- Bibliography.- Index.

“It is a welcome study because it brings together a significant number of twentieth-century books for older children and adolescents so that patterns of usage of the pre-modern Celtic-language source texts become clear. … Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy is a well-researched and informative analysis, highly readable … and a solid contribution to the study of the uses and misuses of myth in fantasy.” (Jessica Hemming, Folklore, Vol. 130 (4), 2019)