Published: 2020-12-31

Canis lupus – Wild and Tame, Real and Anthropomorphised, or Over a Hundred Years of the Wolf in Children’s and Young Adult Literature (Selected Problems)

Aleksandra Butrymowicz
Dzieciństwo. Literatura i Kultura
Section: Studies
DOI https://doi.org/10.32798/dlk.631

Abstract

The aim of the article is to analyse the metamorphoses which the Canis lupus species is subjected to in selected examples of children’s and young adult literature. The author of the paper attempts to go beyond the anthropocentric perspective in order to show how the features considered in culture as wolfish contribute to the creation of the image of the wolf as an animal entering into a relationship with a particular book’s child character. The motifs and artistic devices discussed in the article, such as establishing human-animal relationships, taming, or anthropomorphisation, show the face of the nature-culture border while emphasising its problematic location. The main research material consists of Kazan by James Oliver Curwood (1914), The Wolf Wilder by Katherine Rundell (2015), and Czerwona baśń [A Red Fairy Tale] by Wiktoria Korzeniewska (2020), with contextual references to selected traditional fairy tales and other cultural texts for children and young people.

Keywords:

anthropomorphisation, fairy tale, Czerwona baśń, predator, wildness, James Oliver Curwood, Katherine Rundell, children’s and young adult literature, taming, Kazan, Wiktoria Korzeniewska, The Wolf Wilder, wolf

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Butrymowicz, A. (2020). Canis lupus – Wild and Tame, Real and Anthropomorphised, or Over a Hundred Years of the Wolf in Children’s and Young Adult Literature (Selected Problems). Dzieciństwo. Literatura I Kultura, 2(2), 37–53. https://doi.org/10.32798/dlk.631

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