ENGL 2740 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Wolfgang Iser, Didacticism
16 Oct 2015
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Issues raised: romanticization of childhood, political agendas (interpretation), de nition of childhood/historical cultural variability, crossover media (crossover ction), role of adults in children"s literature, power relations. What is the relationship between children"s literature and children . Always an adult"s idea of children"s perspective into the world. Children born with all kinds of base instincts and needed to be educated into regular. Children are born into a daydreaming and imaginative life and the world corrupts them to be. The world chips away at a child"s goodness. Must be self aware of the ideas you"re imposing on a child. The act of reading: a theory of aesthetic response behaviour, 21st c greedy, cruel, etc. Reader is imagined as a role that one plays or into which one is invited by text. A subject position (that you"re invited to be into) Imagined as an action, something dynamic (reading is not passive)
