Young Readers and Old Stories. Young-Adult and Crossover Adaptations of the Arthurian Stories
Keywords:
young adult literature, English literature, romance, Arthurian legends, young readers, adaptationsAbstract
Who has read Arthurian stories in the last century and who is still enjoying them today? One of the possible answers is: young readers. This paper reviews the choices and changes the authors of twentieth-century Arthurian retellings have made in an effort to adapt the traditional stories to a modern young readership.References
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