ENG 224 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Alison Lurie, Homeaway, Truancy
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Jan. 30 appropriated texts - children pick them up themselves, not always intentional. Little women (1868) - family story about women getting families together. The diamond girls (2004) - still family story, bond between daughters and mothers. Ultimately concerned with cultivating socially acceptable children . Individuals whose reading conforms to existing ideas about what children are and childhood should be. Alison lurie - not in front of the grown ups . Writes about 3 points in child"s lit. The hidden adult in the children"s book, adults who write the books anyway. He says that there are 4 basic theories to children"s lit: language, point of view, desire"s confrontation with knowledge (and the resulting effect on innocence, the values associated with home and away. Kids read forwards; all knowledge is new to them. Adults read backwards; they read nostalgically as a re ection to what they remember. Identify with child hero (or child surrogate like bilbo baggins)
