Course Schedule
Lehrveranstaltungen
Children's literature (Seminar)
Dozent/in: Emer O'Sullivan
Termin:
wöchentlich | Mittwoch | 08:15 - 09:45 | 04.04.2016 - 10.07.2016 | C 5.311 Seminarraum
Inhalt: Children's literature has, since its beginnings in the 18th century, been a source both of entertainment and instruction for child readers as well as a product which reflects adults' perceptions of children and the choices that they make regarding what literature is suitable for the young. It is addressed to a wide range of readers from pre-literate toddlers to young adults and encompasses an equally wide range of genres including picturebooks, traditional folk and fairy tales, novels, poetry, and informational books. In this seminar, you will become familiar with a selection of literature in the English-speaking cultures across time, and learn to appreciate this branch of literature through close reading and work with different critical approaches. You will examine the distinctive qualities of children’s literature, explore the relation of didacticism and entertainment in texts for children at different historical periods, and consider the changing concepts of the child and its influence on the production of children's literature.
Picturing Alice in Wonderland: illustrations and movies (Seminar)
Dozent/in: Emer O'Sullivan
Termin:
wöchentlich | Dienstag | 18:15 - 19:45 | 04.04.2016 - 10.07.2016 | C 5.311 Seminarraum
Inhalt: Lewis Carroll famously wrote in the opening pages of "Alice in Wonderland": "'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations!"'. Since then countless illustrators from John Tenniel to Salvador Dalí have created their own pictorial interpretation of the novel in their illustrations, and numerous film-makers have created their version as moving pictures on the screen. This seminar - after engaging with Carroll's novel itself - will examine prominent examples of both forms of interpretation and adaptation and see what principles of interpretation and production can be identified.