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Victorian Children's Fantasy


DozentIn: Prof. Dr. phil. Thomas Kullmann

Veranstaltungstyp: Seminar

Ort: 22/215: Mo. 10:15 - 11:45 (13x), 41/215: Mi. 08:15 - 09:45 (13x)

Zeiten: Mo. 10:15 - 11:45 (wöchentlich), Ort: 22/215, Mi. 08:15 - 09:45 (wöchentlich), Ort: 41/215

Beschreibung: The Victorian Age was the great age of children’s literature. Child readers were offered a variety of high-class fictional texts which included realism as well as fantasy. Fantasy texts, in particular, touch on issues with a broad, general appeal: the individual and society, the human condition, love, death, language, science, class.
We are going to read the following texts:
William Makepeace Thackeray, The Rose and the Ring,
Charles Kingsley, The Water-Babies, ed. Brian Alderson (Oxford World’s Classics),
Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, ed. Peter
Hunt (Oxford World’s Classics),
George Macdonald, At the Back of the North Wind (CreateSpace Independent Publishing),
George Macdonald, The Princess and Curdie (Puffin Classics),
Mary Louisa Molesworth, The Cuckoo Clock (CreateSpace Independent Publishing)
Mary Louisa Molesworth, Christmas Tree Land (CreateSpace Independent Publishing)
Please copy The Rose and the Ring from a master-copy left at CopyShop Dialog, Süsterstr. 29. Copies of the other books will be made available at zur Heide bookshop. Please do not acquire any other editions.
Credits will be awarded on the basis of regular attendance, an oral report and a written term paper. Please register for the course in one of my office hours (StudIP registration is not sufficient); anyone registering in person until 18 October 2018 will get a place, (irrespective of StudIP), and make a commitment to attend the seminar.
And please make sure you have read the books by the beginning of the semester (there will be a short test on plots and characters).


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