English 2033E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, C. S. Lewis, Tabula Rasa
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Original sin : sin leads to the fall of humanity. Didactic teaching which was moral and religious. 1807: william wordsworth, ode; intimations of immorality : experimented with the idea that the human soul has a pre-existence with god which adults may lack, children are innocent. 1860s => golden age" of children literature: delight a child"s mindfulness, depicting them as angelic. Oedipus complex: children have this attraction to their opposite sex of parent and jealousy of the same sex, 1960s: increase in willingness to depict kids who are not angelic, show their jealousy, violence and cruelty. No book is really worth reading at age ten which is not equally (and often more) worth reading at the age of fifty . You continue to come back to books and read it again and find new things.