ENG 224 Lecture Notes - Alison Lurie
Document Summary
Family stories: overt religiosity and clear moral structures are common. Use of children"s literature has changed overtime, these themes are no longer always present. Used to be a stage that you would go through that was fleeting and to be finished. In the time of little women it becomes something to be adored, and childhood is a time of innocence: innocence is not something that can be dropped and lost, it is a concept that changes overtime. Nodelman invoked 4 large concepts, perry nodelman, the hidden child (2008: language, simple vision, straight forward action based plots. When you focus concerns through a child they become the concerns of a child. Helps us identify with children: kids read forward adults read backwards. You want kids to be safe and secure yet: the values associates with home and away, home place allows kids to be safe.
