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LIT864: Children's Literature: Concepts and Theories |
This unit introduces students to contemporary literary and cultural theories pertinent to reading and analysing texts produced for children. Topics include social and historical contexts for the production and reception of children's literature; constructions of childhood; semiotics of visual and verbal texts; critical approaches to children's texts; ideology and value; classics, canons and postmodernity.
| Credit Points: | 4 |
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E2 - Evening; Offered in the second half-year
X2 - External study; Offered in the second half-year
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| Staff Contact: |
Professor John Stephens |
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| Offered By: |
- Division of Humanities |
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