Title: "For the Children": Children's Columns in Australian Newspapers during the Great War - Mythic Hope, or Mythic Indoctrination?
Creator: Johnson, Marguerite M.
Relation: Our Mythical Hope: The Ancient Myths as a Medicine for the Hardships of Life in Children’s and Young Adults’ Culture p. 145-157
Relation: Our Mythical Childhood
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323552888
Publisher: Warsaw University Press
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2020
Description: This article explores the inclusion of more adult issues in retellings of Greek myths in children’s columns in Australian newspapers with a focus on the topic of the Great War. The case study here is from the column “For the Children”, published in the Australian Christian Commonwealth on 25 September 1914. This was a weekly newspaper from South Australia, first published in 1901, with its title reflecting the federation of the Australian colonies into one nation that year.
Subject: hope; youth; childhood; life difficulties; mythology
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1438102
Identifier: uon:40540
Identifier: ISBN:9788323552888
Language: eng

"For the Children": Children's Columns in Australian Newspapers during the Great War - Mythic Hope, or Mythic Indoctrination?