You can watch the film here on the Soyuz Multifilm youtube site:Īustralian writer, Nadia Wheatley, is best-known for her book My Place which chronicles the history of one part of Sydney from 1788 to 1988. Hanna Paulouskaya points out in entry 43 on Icarus and the Sages, that although he falls, the moral of the story (which conflates Icarus’s famous fall, with his father Daedalus’s invention),is to take a leap, to explore the freedom of ideas and inventions. Determined to be known for something, he makes a machine and attempts to fly. This 1976 Russian animation directed and written by Fyodor Khitruk shows Icarus living in the clouds with the philosophers, who have all found their places in history. I’ve selected a few, ones in which the Icarus myth features. Searching Icarus in the Our Mythical Childhood Survey brought up 34 entries, from the literary, oral, electronic, and audiovisual categories. How many adolescents, and children for that matter, don’t listen to their parents? How many children, it might be noted, find themselves in difficult situations because of their parents’ actions? (Icarus isn’t necessarily flying by his own choice.) The complex of emotions and interactions in the Icarus myth map well onto children’s and young adult literature –adolescent enjoyment of risk-taking the power, and peril, of invention and creativity, child-parent conflict and love. The myth of Icarus is often used to think about the adolescent years, years that are often depicted as times of striving, questing, struggling, failing, and falling to earth with a bump. I therefore looked up the term ‘Icarus.’ Who among us doesn’t wish to fly? It means we’re striving, we’re growing wings, we’re hoping to fly. Which means we’ve come through our adolescence, and are into our adult years. If our project has turned two, that means we are two years into the five years of the project. Because Miriam Riverlea and I are writing a guide to the field, we scour the site often, looking for inspiration, ideas, and illuminations among the entries that we, and our colleagues, have written. In honour of our second birthday, I thought it would be a nice idea to share some of the findings from the Our Mythical Childhood Survey. Look here, at the Our Mythical Childhood website, and here, at the Our Mythical Childhood facebook, twitter, and blog pages, for summaries and updates. On 1 October, 2 years ago, we began work on the Our Mythical Childhood project, and so, we are now two! It’s amazing to see how far we’ve come, and how much we’ve found out.
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