As a continuation from the first semester, this seminar will focus on some seminal works of children's literature written during the Edwardian period. How did the images of childhood change, and how do these images influence our modern or postmodern concepts of childhood?
課題・評価
As in the first semester
テキスト
J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan and Other Plays. Oxford World's Classics. OUP, 1999.
Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows. Penguin Classics. Penguin Books, 2004.
Handouts to be distributed in class.
参考文献
Jackie Wullschlager, Inventing Wonderland: The Lives and Fantasies of Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, J.M. Barrie, Kenneth Grahame and A.A. Milne. Methuen, 1995.
Andrew Birkin, J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys. Yale UP, 2003.
Ann Thwaite, A.A. Milne: His Life. Faber, 1990.
Ann Thwaite, The Brilliant Career of Winnie-the-Pooh: The Story of A.A. Milne and His Writings for Children. Methuen, 1992.
受講生への要望
As in the first semester
授業計画
1. From Victorian to Edwardian England
2. J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan: Close Reading
3. Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows: Close Reading
4. A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh Series: Close Reading
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