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Children's Literature: Concepts and Theories - LIT864

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
When Offered:

2015 - Next offered in 2015

Staff Contact(s): Dr Robyn McCallum, Dr Victoria Flanagan
Prerequisites:

Admission to MA in (English Literature or Children's Literature or Creative Writing) or PGDipArts in Children's Literature or MEChild in Multiliteracies or PGDipEChild in Multiliteracies Prerequisite Information

Corequisites:

NCCW(s):
Unit Designation(s):

Arts

Assessed As: Graded
Offered By:

Department of English

Faculty of Arts

Timetable Information

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