| CODE | ENG2097 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Children's Literature | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 2 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | English | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit seeks to provide an introduction to the academic study of children’s literature. The academic study of children’s literature is currently a fast-growing discipline throughout the Western world and beyond. Of interest to educators and book enthusiasts alike, the study of children’s books debates the complex relationship between the stories presented to children and the culture which influences them and is in turn influenced by them. Thus as child readers interact with the children presented to them in the stories they read, a complex notion of childhood develops and changes over time. In the study-unit of identifying the parameters of this literary domain, participants will enjoy discussing a number of genres and bestsellers within children’s literature. Seminars will also tackle some key debates in the field and amongst the critical and topical issues to be dealt with are the notion of children’s literature as a genre and the contemporary branding that seems to accompany it: the cultural notion of childhood and the child reader; children’s book art and picture books; the trend towards multimedia; series and crossover phenomena; multiculturalism and intertextuality. A full list of texts to be discussed will be circulated ahead of the study-unit. Reading List: Egoff, Sheila, and others, eds, Only Connect: Readings on Children's Literature, 3rd edn (Ontario: Oxford University Press, 1996) Hollindale, Peter, Signs of Childness in Children’s Books (Gloucestershire: Thimble Press, 1997) Hunt, Peter, Children’s Literature: An Illustrated History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995) Reynolds, Kimberley, ed., Modern Children’s Literature: An Introduction (Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Giuliana Fenech |
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