MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS
Arts Graduate Handbook 1996
Published by Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
ENM4210/5210
Writing the child
Proposed to be offered next in 1997
Heather Scutter
8 or 12 points + 2 hours per week + Clayton
Synopsis This subject will examine historical and cultural changes in
the representation of childhood and the child figure in a range of texts from
the Romantic to the modern eras. Prose fictions, some addressed to adult
readers, some to child readers, will be explored for the ways in which
discourses about the `child' intersect with discourses about notions of
origins; gender and sexuality; class, social place, power and subjectivity;
race, especially in the relationship between empire and colonised; the family
and the home; education of mind and body; and growing up, especially with
regard to the liberal humanist preoccupation with individual attainment of
maturity/adulthood through suffering. The subject will employ
poststructuralist, semiotic and discourse theory, and will have a feminist
emphasis.
Assessment (8 points) Assignment/s (2500 words): 40% + Essay (3500
words): 60%
Assessment (12 points) Two seminar papers (2000 words each): 20% each +
Short essay (2000 words): 20% + Long essay (3000 words) or a 3-hour
examination: 40%
Prescribed texts
A set of readings from Locke, Rousseau, Blake, Wordsworth, Lamb, Mayhew and
Hans Christian Andersen will be available from the English department.
- Barrie J M Peter Pan Puffin
- Burnett F H The secret garden Puffin
- Carroll L Alice's adventures in Wonderland Puffin
- Dickens C Little Dorrit OUP
- Eliot G Silas Marner Penguin
- Golding W Lord of the flies Faber
- Hughes R A high wind in Jamaica Penguin
- James H The turn of the screw Penguin
- Kipling R Kim Penguin
- McDonald G At the back of the north wind Puffin
- Norton M The borrowers Puffin
- Ransome A Swallows and Amazons Puffin
- Stead C The man who loved children Angus and Robertson
- Storr C Marianne dreams Puffin
Recommended texts
- Aries P Centuries of childhood Cape
- Carpenter H Secret gardens Houghton Mifflin
- Coveney P The image of childhood Penguin
- Rose J The case of Peter Pan or the impossibility of children's
fiction Macmillan
- Stephens J Language and ideology in children's fiction Longman
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