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Children's literature is recognised as a remarkable and dynamic part of literary and social culture. This course, one year taught Masters programme in an Irish university, offers graduates in English or related disciplines the opportunity to study a broad range of children's literature in English. It addresses chronologies, genres, modes of criticism, publishing trends and the full apparatus of literary investigation across four centuries, while addressing the unique power dynamics that arise from adult authors writing for child readers. It is particularly concerned with multidisciplinary study because of the unique integration of words and images through the medium of picture books and graphic novels, and because its readership is more likely than any other to be 'technological natives' to have grown up taking multimedia approaches to texts for granted. Complete in itself, the course may also serve as preparation for those intending to proceed to further research in the field. Unique opportunities exist to work with the Pollard Collection,
Course Content: There are three elements:
Perspectives and case studies in children's literature (core module),
Optional modules:
- The child and Victorian literature,
- Tolkien: books for children and children's literature,
- Historical novels,
- Young Adult fiction,
- ‘Be Merry and Wise’: the rise of children’s literature. . Students choose one optional module in Michaelmas term and a second in Hilary term. Some of the options are shared with the MPhil in Popular Literature.
Dissertation
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