Introduction to British Children's Literature - AAA132008

• Title: Úvod do britské dětské literatury
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2021
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Colin Steele Clark, M.A.

Annotation

This class serves as an introduction to British Children’s Literature and covers chronological development, major themes, authors and their texts and issues in the genre.Assessment is obtained from a combination of attendance(in person or distanced, dependent on Sanitary regulations during the semester and as dictated by FFUK),participation and assigned work( presentations and final essay( details tba-deadline is 11.05.2021 )).All key texts are available from UALK/FFUK libraries and/or online sources.

Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81316095641?pwd=dzVGVlBuQWJVYVh4c0c5TFcxd2R3Zz09

Class Times: Tuesdays 1050-1230
Office Hours: Mondays 1100-1200 or by appointment (both Zoom at present)

Contact details: Email: [e-mail] /[e-mail]

Last update: Poncarová Petra Johana, Mgr., Ph.D. (05.02.2021)

Literature

Bettelheim, Bruno. The Uses of Enchantment-The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales.London:Penguin,2010.

Carpenter, Humphrey and Mari Prichard, ed. The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.

Carpenter, Humphrey. Secret Gardens: The Golden Age of Children's Literature from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Winnie-the -Pooh. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1995.

Demers, Patricia, ed. From Instruction to Delight: An Anthology of Children's Literature to 1850. Canada: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Dunae, Patrick A. "Boys' Literature and the Idea of Empire." Victorian Studies. 24 (1): 105-21.

Hunt, Peter. "Introduction." Literature for Children: Contemporary Criticism. ed. Hunt. London: Routledge, 1992.

Hunt, Peter, ed. Children's Literature: An Illustrated History. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Opie, Iona and Peter, ed. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1951.

Reynolds, Kimberley. Girls Only? Gender and Popular Children's Fiction in Britain, 1880-1910. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990.

Rose, Jacqueline. The Case of Peter Pan or the Impossibility of Children's Fiction. London: Macmillan, 1984.

Tolkien, J. R. R. "Tree and Leaf" in "Tree and Leaf." "Smith of Wooton Major." "The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth." London: Unwin, 1975. 7-102.

Zipes, Jack, ed. Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature. 4 volumes. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Last update: Poncarová Petra Johana, Mgr., Ph.D. (05.02.2021)

Syllabus

1. 16 Feb- Introduction: To instruct or delight? The questions of Children’s Literature

2. 23 Feb-History of the genre I-Early beginnings from morals and manners to reason and romanticism

3. 2 Mar-History of the genre II- The First Golden Age of Children’s Literature

4. 9 Mar-History of the genre III-The Second Golden Age of Children’s Literature

5. 16 Mar- The child protagonist -orphans and child heroes (Blake, Dickens, Bronte)

6. 23 Mar-Fantasy and Fairy Tales I

7. 30 Mar-Poetry-Logic, Limericks and Nonsense Verse

8. 6 Apr- Picture books, Animal and Toy Stories

9. 13 Apr- Fantasy and Fairy Tales II-Tolkien and after

10. 20Apr-Pottermania and the marketing of myth.  

11. 27Apr-The YA novel- the paradoxes of modern children’s storytelling

12. 4 May- History of the genre IV-Recent texts and developments.

13.11May-Final Class Session. Submission of Final Essays- course admin.

Last update: Poncarová Petra Johana, Mgr., Ph.D. (05.02.2021)