AustLit
Texts
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Harry potter and the Philosopher's Stone!$!Rowling, J.K.!$! !$!!$!
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The Witches!$!Dahl, Roald!$! !$!!$!
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Peter Pan!$!Barrie, J.M.!$! !$!Puffin!$!2008
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Only You Can Save mankind!$!Pratchett, Terry!$! !$!!$!
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Howl's Moving Castle!$!Wynne-Jones, Diana!$! !$!!$!
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y Tensy Farlow and the Home for Mislaid Children Camberwell : Penguin , 2009 Z1615694 2009 single work children's fiction children's (taught in 1 units)
'Dumped in the River Charon, hunted by an acursed river creature and betrayed by the wicked Matron Pluckrose, Tensy Farlow is in mortal danger. She has no parents. Worse still, she has no guardian angel.
'When she is thrown into the Home for Mislaid Children - a gloomy orphanage where ravens attack, Watchers hover over your bed, and even the angels cannot be trusted - it seems that all hope is lost.
'Yet could it be that a plucky, flame-haired orphan with a mysterious past is precisely what this dark world needs?' (From the publisher's website.)
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Wizard of Earthsea!$!Le Guin, Ursula!$! !$!Puffin!$!
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Five Children and It!$!Nebit, Edith!$! !$!!$!1902
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland!$!Carroll, Lewis!$! !$!!$!
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Indian in the Cupboard!$!Banks, Lynne Reid!$! !$!!$!
Degrees
Description
The course will cover the relationships between children’s fantasy literature and both past and contemporary societal norms. It will examine the influence of Romanticism in childhood, the Victorian child and fantasy, the fantastic sublime, trauma and fantasy, fantasy and humour. In addition, the course will include discussion of the role of imperialism and ideas of the Other, and notions of resistance, freedom and power in fantasy literature for children.
Assessment
2000-word major essay 40%
Journal Journal entries 40%