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2009 Course Handbook

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
Contact Hours:--
When Offered: E2 - Evening; Offered in the second half-year
X2 - External study; Offered in the second half-year
Staff Contact: Dr Robyn McCallum
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Assessed As: Graded
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Faculty of Arts

Timetable Information

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Recent Updates

17 Oct 2008 - EDUC80P

Program title amended