Play for me, Pan : exploring Pan as a guiding spirit and troubled adolescent in children's literature
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2016
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Pan continues to be a presence in western art and literature, despite his status as a minor
god in antiquity. Later receptions of Pan simultaneously retain certain features from the ancient
world and develop new versions of the god, readapting his tale. Such variations have to do not
only with historical and cultural context but also with the authors’ intended audience. This thesis
explores the treatment of Pan and Pan-like figures in two clusters of children’s novels, one from
the beginning of the 20th century (J.M Barrie’s “Peter Pan,” Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the
Willows and Francis Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden) and one from the beginning of the
21st century (Tobias Druitt’s Corydon Trilogy, Rick Riordan’s “Percy Jackson and the
Olympians” series, and Donna Jo Napoli’s The Great God Pan).