ENGB35H3 Lecture Notes - Puritans, Protestant Work Ethic, The Ugly Duchess
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If you can t suspend your disbelief, it s probably not a very good book. Fantasy fiction & children s fiction both came into being at around the same time . Matrix: you take the blue pill the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill you stay in wonderland and i show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. Fantasy is key to child development (jean piaget) Helps children to subjunctivize (jerome bruner) idea that you can think beyond your own identity/concerns. This is different from lockean ideas in that time, fantasy was not good. It would confuse children so that they couldn t see the real world: from at least age 3, children can identify between reality and fantasy. Fantasy is a way for children to understand and manage a terrifying world. Ursula k. le guin: fantasy is true, of course.
