1. 14/10
LECT - Overall intro – course overview, course requirements
Introductory lesson – the status of children’s literature – definitions, audiences, authorship, theoretical approaches
2. 21/10
LECT- History of children’s literature – myth, fable, fairy tale; early
instructional/didactic & religious works; ‘adult’ works appropriated by children; allegorical instructions (Bunyan); hornbooks, chapbooks, alphabet books, penny dreadfuls, periodicals
SEM - Mother Goose nursery rhymes, history, origins, types, meanings, analysis
3. 28/10
LECT - Romanticism, Transcendentalism; literary fairy-tale (Andersen, Wilde, MacDonald), fantastic imagination; fantasy
SEM - Oscar Wilde, ‘The Happy Prince’
4. 4/11
LECT - The Golden Age – Victorian era; Lewis Carroll, imagination & fantasy, nonsense
& limericks; American domestic fiction (Alcott), adventure stories, Mark Twain and the ‘gilded age’, boys’ vs. girls’ fiction; gender in children’s literature
SEM - Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
5. 18/11
LECT - The Fin de Siecle; violence in children’s literature; publishing, popular literature
Early 20th century; childhood nostalgia (Peter Pan, Winnie-the-Pooh); Barrie; Imperialism (Kipling), Burnett, postcolonial readings, Britain vs. America (Little Lord Fauntleroy)
SEM - F. L. Baum, The Wizard of Oz
6. 25/11
LECT - Modernism; Nesbit; the period between the wars; The Hobbit; escapism (The
Famous Five); realism in children’s literature; Children as protagonists of ‘adult’ fiction in the post-war era (Lord of the Flies); dark fantasy – Lewis, Norton; Mary Poppins, Charlotte’s Web
SEM - J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
7. 2/12
LECT - Seminar paper in-class consultation
SEM - F. H. Burnett, The Secret Garden
8. 9/12
LECT - Postmodernism; experimentation; picture-books (Scieszka & Smith); subversiveness & play; Tolkien, Dahl, Pratchett, Rowling, Gaiman – fantasy, high fantasy, epic fantasy
SEM - R. Dahl, The Witches
9. 16/12
LECT - Conclusion – children’s literature and the media (film), the power of certain
franchises (Twilight), kiddie dollar; graphic novels, YA lit and the golden age of its theory (=now)
SEM - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter
10. 23/12
LECT + SEM - 90 min TEST (30 questions)
LECT - Overall intro – course overview, course requirements
Introductory lesson – the status of children’s literature – definitions, audiences, authorship, theoretical approaches
2. 21/10
LECT- History of children’s literature – myth, fable, fairy tale; early
instructional/didactic & religious works; ‘adult’ works appropriated by children; allegorical instructions (Bunyan); hornbooks, chapbooks, alphabet books, penny dreadfuls, periodicals
SEM - Mother Goose nursery rhymes, history, origins, types, meanings, analysis
3. 28/10
LECT - Romanticism, Transcendentalism; literary fairy-tale (Andersen, Wilde, MacDonald), fantastic imagination; fantasy
SEM - Oscar Wilde, ‘The Happy Prince’
4. 4/11
LECT - The Golden Age – Victorian era; Lewis Carroll, imagination & fantasy, nonsense
& limericks; American domestic fiction (Alcott), adventure stories, Mark Twain and the ‘gilded age’, boys’ vs. girls’ fiction; gender in children’s literature
SEM - Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
5. 18/11
LECT - The Fin de Siecle; violence in children’s literature; publishing, popular literature
Early 20th century; childhood nostalgia (Peter Pan, Winnie-the-Pooh); Barrie; Imperialism (Kipling), Burnett, postcolonial readings, Britain vs. America (Little Lord Fauntleroy)
SEM - F. L. Baum, The Wizard of Oz
6. 25/11
LECT - Modernism; Nesbit; the period between the wars; The Hobbit; escapism (The
Famous Five); realism in children’s literature; Children as protagonists of ‘adult’ fiction in the post-war era (Lord of the Flies); dark fantasy – Lewis, Norton; Mary Poppins, Charlotte’s Web
SEM - J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
7. 2/12
LECT - Seminar paper in-class consultation
SEM - F. H. Burnett, The Secret Garden
8. 9/12
LECT - Postmodernism; experimentation; picture-books (Scieszka & Smith); subversiveness & play; Tolkien, Dahl, Pratchett, Rowling, Gaiman – fantasy, high fantasy, epic fantasy
SEM - R. Dahl, The Witches
9. 16/12
LECT - Conclusion – children’s literature and the media (film), the power of certain
franchises (Twilight), kiddie dollar; graphic novels, YA lit and the golden age of its theory (=now)
SEM - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter
10. 23/12
LECT + SEM - 90 min TEST (30 questions)
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