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here frequently for updates on readings, assignments, and class notes.
Please note that this is the 2005 syllabus, NOT the one for Fall 2007.
The "Reading List" link at left is, however, in the planning stages for
Fall 2007, so take a look.
Required Texts:
Anderson, M.T. Feed
Benton, Jim, Lunch Walks Among Us (Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist
1)
Clamp, Magic Knight: Rayearth I, Book I
Datlow, Ellen, and Terri Windling, ed. The Green Man: Tales from the
Mythic Forest
Finney, Patricia, I, Jack
Frost, Helen, Keesha’s House
Gaiman, Neil, The Wolves in the Walls; Coraline; Death: The High Cost
of Living
High, Linda Oatman, Sister Slam and the Poetic Motormouth Road Trip
Myers, Walter Dean, Monster
Nealon, Jeffrey T. and Susan Searls Giroux, The Theory Toolbox
Nelson, Marilyn, Carver: A Life in Poems
Pratchett, Terry, The Wee Free Men
Rachel, T. Cole, and Rita D. Costello, Bend, Don’t Shatter: Poets
on the Beginning of Desire
Rennison, Louise, Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging
Trueman, Terry, Stuck in Neutral
Westerday, Scott, So Yesterday
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Course Description
In this class, we will read exemplars of various trends in
contemporary literature for children, and analyze the way these trends
reflect and spur cultural change and values. Trends under study will
include postmodern artistic techniques and metafictive elements in picture
books, horror literature for children and young adults, the kinds of humor
that are increasingly prevalent in literature for preadolescents and teen
girls, fantasy, multicultural historical fiction, verse novels, manga,
hip-hop literature, multi-genre narrative formats, disability literature,
technology and coolhunting.
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