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Children's Literature: Fantasy And Realism (LIT224)
Semester 2 / 2016

Texts

y separately published work icon Way Home Libby Hathorn , Gregory Rogers (illustrator), Milsons Point : Random House , 1994 Z798083 1994 single work picture book children's (taught in 2 units) A young boy who lives in a hole in a wall in a big city makes a dangerous night trip to bring a stray cat back to his little cell for company.

Peter Pan

Come Away from the Water, Shirley

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Hunger Games

The Chocolate War

Coraline

Boy Meets Boy

Wonder

The Adventures of Captain Underpants

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Where The Wild Things Are

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The BFG

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Jungle Book

Description

This subject focuses on changing perceptions of the two dominant modes in the discourse of children's literature - fantasy and realism. Students will explore these modes in a variety of narrative forms, and issues such as the construction and contesting of a canon, censorship, re-mediation and children's literature in the digital space. Taking account of historical and cultural contexts, students will identify the factors that determine children's preferences and compare the responses of children and adults to these two narrative modes.

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