ED 414 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Francis Spufford, Terry Eagleton, Enid Blyton
15 Dec 2018
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The books you read as a child brought you sights you hadn"t seen yourself, scents you hadn"t yet smelled, sounds you hadn"t heard. They introduced you to people you hadn"t met, and helped you to sample ways of being that would never have occurred to you. And the result was somebody who was enriched by the knowledge that their own particular life only occupied one little space in a much bigger world of possibilities. francis spufford. Books influence children who are developing and reading can transform the reader. Ideologies/ motifs (michelle foucault: racism, class, gender roles. In this unit students examine literature told to or written for children and adolescents. The course takes an historic, generic and thematic approach and asks how children and their literature have been and are conceptualized as we move into the twenty-first century. Students examine oral tradition as well as the written tradition and screen adaptation.
