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Children's Literature - History, Theory, Poetics- Dozent/in
- PD Dr. Anja Müller
- Angaben
- Seminar/Hauptseminar
2 SWS, benoteter Schein, angeboten für Alps Adriatics Joint Degree in English and American Studies
Zeit und Ort: Mi 10:30 - 12:00, U5/218
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- 1. Modulzuordnung:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik und Lehramt neu GY: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (englische Literatur) (8 ECTS); freie Erweiterung (8 ECTS)
MA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Mastermodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (6 oder 8 ECTS); Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (6 oder 8 ECTS); modulgebundener Erweiterungsbereich: Seminar (8 oder 6 ECTS)
Joint Degree: Compulsory Subjects: Seminar (6 ECTS); Restricted Electives: Seminar (6 ECTS); Free Electives: Seminar (6 ECTS)
Magister, Lehramt alt, Diplom: Hauptseminar Literaturwissenschaft
2. Zugangsvoraussetzungen:
BA und Lehramt neu GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft
Magister, Lehramt alt, Diplom: Zwischenprüfung bzw. Hauptseminaraufnahmeprüfung
3. Anmeldung:
Anmeldung über FlexNow!
Bitte außerdem anmelden per E-Mail an am.studi-ba(AT)anjamueller.info; Betreff "Children" (insbesondere wenn die Veranstaltung nicht in FlexNow angezeigt wird)
Anmeldefrist:
für Bamberger Studierende: bis 30.9.2008 (Abmeldungen bitte bis 25.9. tätigen!)
für Erasmus / Joint Degree: bis 10.10.2008
4. Voraussetzungen für Leistungsnachweis / Scheinvergabe:
regelmäßige aktive Teilnahme;
8 ECTS: Präsentation; Hausarbeit in englischer Sprache nach Maßgabe des Style Sheet (BA: 3500-4500 Wörter; MA: 4500-6000 Wörter; Abgabetermin: 10.3.2009)
6 ECTS: MA Anglistik/Amerkanistik: Präsentation mit schriftlicher Ausarbeitung; Joint Degree: Referat und Hausarbeit 4500-5000 Wörter; Abgabetermin 10.3.2009)
5. Sonstiges:
Students should have read at least Goody Two-Shoes, The Governess and Original Stories by the beginning of the term (available online via OPAC and ECCO-database)
- Inhalt
- In this course, we shall trace the history of children's literature, looking at various examples (mostly fiction and poetry) from the late seventeenth century to the present day. Apart from reading the texts in view of their cultural and historical context, we will discuss how children's literature helps to create notions of 'the child' throughout the centuries. From a more theoretical perspective, the course also addresses genre questions, i.e. how can we define 'children's literature', and in how far does the genre distinguish itself from other genres in the literary field? Last but not least, our concern will be with the characteristics of this genre.
Our course shall start with four sessions on the origins of children's literature in the 17th and 18th century. All texts for these sessions are available via the ECCO-database (Eighteenth-Century Collection Online). Where printed versions are available, these will also be provided on the reserved shelf.
In the next five sessions, we shall use texts written in the 19th and the early 20th century for our discussions. The last five sessions before our concluding meeting will largely be devoted to award-winning children's literature from the 21st century.
You can find the selection of topics for presentation in the Reading list.
P.S.: The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, His Dark Materials and the Harry Potter Series are not on the list on purpose, as they were already discussed in some previous classes. Sorry about that!
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Reading List:
Please get a copy of the texts - either via the VC or buy them - and read them for the respective session.
Titles preceded by > are still available as presentation topics.
For titles preceded by °, presentations have already been assigned. A maximum of 2 people can do a presentation, but we have to see that all topics have been assigned to at least one person before we go for partner-presentations.
(There will be no presentation on Janeway and Newbery - we'll discuss those texts together in class!)
If you write your term paper on one of the English texts, it will count as "English Literature", if on one of the American texts, it is "American Literature", of course. :-)
A) 17th and 18th Century (available on the ECCO-database; extracts will also be available on the Virtual Campus Site): - all: English
James Janeway, A Token for Children
John Newbery, A Little Pretty Pocket Book
> The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes
° Sarah Fielding, The Governess
> Mary and Charles Lamb, Mrs. Leicester's School
° Mary Wollstonecraft, Original Stories
B) 19th and early 20th Century:
° Beatrix Potter, Peter Rabbit (exact tale will be announced; please make sure that you purchase a copy of the original text, not a modern children's version!) - English
° Louisa M. Alcott, Little Women - American
° Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz - American
° A.E. Milne, Winnie the Pooh - English
° Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden - English
C) Award-winning 20th- and 21st-Century Books:
° Judy Blume, Are you there God? It's Me, Margaret - American
° Alan Armstrong, Whittington - American
° Lynne Rae Perkins, Criss Cross - American
° Louis Sachar, Holes - American
° John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - English
Secondary Material:
A representative body of children's literature before the twentieth century is contained in the following anthologies, which will both be on the reserved shelf (so please don't order them in the library!!!):
Patricia Demers and Gordon Moyles, eds., From Instruction to Delight: An Anthology of Children's Literature to 1850 (Toronto: OUP, 1982).
Peter Hunt, ed., Children's Literature: An Anthology 1801-1902 (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001).
The standard history of children's literature is:
Peter Hunt, Children's Literature: An Illustrated History (Oxford: OUP, 1995).
will be on the reserved shelf, please do not order!
Good introductions into the genre are provided in:
Deborah Cogan Thacker and Jean Webb, Introducing Children's Literature: From Romanticism to Postmodernism (London: Routledge, 2002)
and
Hans-Heino Ewers, Literatur für Kinder und Jugendliche: Eine Einführung (Munich: Fink, 2000). (Although written in German and in view of children's books in the German tongue, this book nevertheless is very useful when it comes to characterise the genre more theoretically)
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Title:
- Children's Literature - History, Theory, Poetics
- Credits: 8
- Prerequisites
- 1. Module:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS); freie Erweiterung (8 ECTS)
MA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Mastermodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 or 6 ECTS); Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 or 6 ECTS); modulgebundener Erweiterungsbereich: Seminar (8 or 6 ECTS)
Joint Degree: Compulsory Subjects: Seminar (6 ECTS); Restricted Electives: Seminar (6 ECTS); Free Electives: Seminar (6 ECTS)
Magister, Lehramt, Diplom: Hauptseminar Literaturwissenschaft
2. Zugangsvoraussetzungen:
BA: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft
Magister, Lehramt, Diplom: Zwischenprüfung bzw. Hauptseminaraufnahmeprüfung
3. Anmeldung:
per E-Mail an am.studi-ba(AT)anjamueller.info; Betreff "Children"
BA students MUST ALSO register via FlexNow! from mid-July
Anmeldefrist:
für Bamberger Studierende: bis 30.9.2008
für Erasmus / Joint Degree: bis 10.10.2008
4. Voraussetzungen für Leistungsnachweis / Scheinvergabe:
regelmäßige aktive Teilnahme; Präsentation; Hausarbeit in englischer Sprache nach Maßgabe des Style Sheet (BA: 3500-4500 Wörter; MA: 4500-6000 Wörter; Joint Degree: 4500-5000 Wörter; Abgabetermin: 10.3.2009)
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 25
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Englische Literaturwissenschaft
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