ENGL 3880 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Tantrum
10 Apr 2018
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What are current directions and ideas? (these tend to be positioned in the second half of each century) As reread - think about scenes of greatest interest to you in the four texts we have studied so far: ras, vr, wtp, c&h: feel comfortable and familiar with text. Constructions of childhood and boyhood: another approach. Complexities of satire: conventional notions still present because being satirized, in this case, text is aware of going against normative models and expectations. This means it is aware of normatives. Childhood imagined as/in terms of rebellion, subversion, satire. Key quotes from mahony - up for debate: the strip is primarily about calvin"s private world and about his relationship with. Hobbes, whose exact nature is left unde ned, but who exists only in calvin"s private world. Not solely in private world: humour in c&h is generated by aggression, superiority, and incongruity. Some of incongruity concerns the depiction of calvin as a child, his exaggerated precociousness.
