Writing the Child (12 points)
(ARTS)
Leader: Heather Scutter
Offered:
Not offered in 2004.
Synopsis:
Objectives: It is intended that students undertaking this course should develop: 1. Knowledge and an understanding of the historicity and cultural constructedness of the child figure. 2. A detailed knowledge and understanding of traditional, romantic, modernist and postmodern representations of the child. 3. A detailed knowledge and understanding of the iconography of childhood. 4. Critical skills pertaining to deconstruction, and the specific ability to deconstruct discourses of childhood in a range of texts for adults and children. 5. An understanding of the ideological relationship between discourses of childhood and western discourses of gender, class and race. 6. A knowledge of narratology and reception theory, and the skills to analyse and interpret such textual elements as narrator, implied reader and narratee in cultural context. 7. The capacity to meet the general learning objectives of the department.
Assessment: Two assignments (2000 words each): 40% + Essay (5000 words): 60%
Contact Hours: 2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week
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