2010 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 (On Campus session: No session) |
| Staff Contact: | Dr Robyn McCallum |
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| Unit Designations: | -- |
| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: |
Department of English Faculty of Arts |