ENGLISH 318 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cannibalism, Social Stratification, Bildungsroman
30 Mar 2016
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Reading in mailda vs. storytelling for and barrie"s wendy? (don"t go peter, i know such lots of stories) Mailda as reader vs. parents as tv viewers. Mailda as trickster igure, trying to protect herself in the beginning, but changes in the second half of the book: trickster abiliies are marshalled towards altruisic endeavors. Social hierarchy is thrown away in favor of those who value educaion. Those who do not value educaion are associated with crassness. Physical size is also coded in a sense, trunchbull large vs. ms. honey small. Common tropes in mulicultural children"s lit: the igure of the wise grandparental igure (a permutaion of jung"s senex archetype, the glossary of terms and aterward with didacic purpose. Rickshaw girl: new didacicism: what and how does this book teach children, mulicultural children"s literature, the working child. Juridical universalism vs. cultural relaivism: alpanas and rickshaw paining, bildungsroman.
