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1/10 Introduction to the Course|
Nikolajeva, Maria. (excerpts from)
Power, Voice, and Subjectivity in Literature for Young Readers. New
York, NY: Routledge, 2010. Print.
McGillis, Roderick. "Looking in the
Mirror: Pedagogy, Theory, and Children's Literature." Teaching
Children's Fiction. Ed. Charles Butler. New York, NY:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 85-105. Print.
Routledge Companion, Chapter
2: Roderick McGillis, "'Criticism is the theory of literature': Theory
is the criticism of literature."
1/17 No Class: MLK, Jr. Day
1/24
Histories of Children's Literature and Conceptions of
Childhood
Handbook, Chapter 1, Evelyn Arizpe and Morag
Styles, "Children Reading at Home: An Historical Overview."
Handbook, Chapter 13: Stevenson, Deborah,
"History of Children's and Young Adult Literature"
Routledge Companion, Chapter 1,
David Rudd, "The Development of Children's Literature"
Simms, Eva M. Chapter 8, "The Invention of
Childhood: Historical Changes in Selfhood and Literacy" from The
Child in the World: Embodiment, Time, and Language in Early Childhood.
Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2008. 195-221. Print.
Book Review: Jordana Hall: The Child in
Christian Thought
Amber Dinquel: Minders of Make Believe
1/31 Author/ity
Foucault, "What is an Author?"
Barhes, Roland. "The
Death of the Author"
Handbook, Chapter 26: Claudia Mills
"The Author's Perspective"
Handbook, Points of Departure by
Lowry, Ransom, Lester, Woodson, Wong, Pullman, Zusak, Anderson, Naylor,
Paterson, and Bruchac
Wimsatt and Beardsley, "The Intentional
Fallacy"
Cadden, Mike. "The Irony of Narration in
the Young Adult Novel"
Handbook, Chapter 27, Karen Nelson
Hoyle, "Archives and Special Collections Devoted to Children's and Young
Adult Literature"
Handbook, Chapter 37, Elizabeth
Hammill, "Listening for the Scratch of a Pen: Museums Devoted to
Children's and Young Adult Literature"
Book Review:
2/7
Ideology and Cultural Studies
Althusser, Louis.
"Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses"
Handbook, Chapter 24:
Roderick McGillis, "Literary Studies, Cultural Studies,
Children's Literature, and the Case of Jeff Smith
Handbook,
Chapter 25: Robyn McCallum and John Stephens,
"Ideology and Children's Books"
Rudd, David. "Cultural Studies."
Teaching Children's Fiction. Ed. Charles Butler. New York,
NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 29-59. Print.
Book Review: Farran Norris, Voracious
Children: Who Eats Whom in Children's Literature?
2/14 Reading
and Readers
Benton, Michael, "Readers, Texts, Contexts: Reader-Response
Criticism." Understanding Children's Literature. Ed. Peter Hunt.
London, UK, 1999. 81-99. Print.
Handbook, Chapter 2, Eva-Maria Simms,
"Questioning the Value of Literacy: A Phenomenology of Speaking and
Reading in Children"
Handbook, Chapter 3, Shirley Brice
Heath, "The Book as Home? It All Depends"
Handbook, Chapter 4, Kathy G. Short,
"Reading Literature in Elementary Classrooms"
Handbook, Chapter 5, Thomas P.
Crumpler and Linda Wedwick, "Readers, Texts, and Contexts in the Middle:
Re-imagining Literature Education for Young Adolescents"
Handbook, Chapter 6, Cynthia Lewis
and Jessica Dockter, "Reading Literature in Secondary School;
Disciplinary Discourse in Global Times"
Handbook, Chapter 9, Eliza T. Dresang and
M. Bowie Kotrla, "School Libraries and the Transformation of Readers and
Reading"
Book Review:
Teaching/Conference Presentation: Kate Brown
2/21 Access
Handbook, Chapter 10,
Paulette M. Rothbauer, Virginia A. Walter, and Katheleen Weibel, "Public
Libraries in the Lives of Young Readers: Past, Present, and Future"
Handbook, Chapter 29, Maria
Nikolajeva, "Translation and Crosscultural Reception"
Handbook, Chapter 30, Petros Panaou
and Tasoula Tsilimeni, "The Implied Reader of the Translation"
Handbook, Chapter 31, Michael David
Ambatchew, "International Communities Building Places for Youth Reading"
Handbook, Chapter 32, Christine
Jenkins, "Censorship: Book Challenges, Challenging Books, and Young
Readers"
Handbook, Chapter 35, Joel Taxel,
"The Economics of Children's Book Publishing in the 21st Century"
Book Review: Elizabeth Williams, Whose Story? Translating the Verbal and the
Visual in Literature for Young Readers
Teaching/Conference Presentation:
Teaching/Conference Presentation:
2/28
Subjectivity and Identity
Lacan, "Structure and Reality"
Coats,
Chapter 1, Looking Glasses and Neverlands
Handbook, Chapter 11, Mollie V.
Blackburn and Caroline T. Clark, "Becoming Readers of Literature with
LGBT Themes: In and Out of Classrooms"
Handbook, Chapter 12, Gerald
Campano and Maria Paula Ghiso, "Immigrant Students as Cosmopolitan
Intellectuals"
Book Review:
Teaching/Conference Presentation:
Susana Rodriguez, Farran Norris
3/7 Spring Break
3/14
Genre and Textuality
Routledge Companion, Chapter 5, John Stephens, "Narratology"
Barthes, "From
Work to Text"
Routledge Companion,
Chapter 6, Lucy Pearson and Kimberley Reynolds, "Realism"
Routledge Companion, Chapter
7, Karen Coats, "Fantasy"
Handbook, Chapter 21, Mike
Cadden, "Genre as Nexus: The Novel for Children and Young Adults"
Nodelman, "Progressive Utopia, Or, How to Grow Up Without Growing Up"
Book Reviews:
Lora Keller, Alternative Worlds in Fantasy Fiction
Amy Hicks, Poetics of Childhood
Teaching/Conference Presentation: Amber
Dinquel
3/21 Difference
Routledge Companion, Chapter 3, Victoria
Flanagan, "Gender Studies"
Routledge Companion, Chapter
4, Clare Bradford, "Race, Ethnicity, and Colonialism"
Handbook, Chapter 8, Maria E. Franqiuz, Carmen
Martinez-Roldan, and Carmen I. Mercado, "Teaching Latina/o Children's
Literature in Multicultural Contexts: Theoretical and Pedagogical
Possibilities"
Handbook, Chapter 15, Betsy
Hearne, "Folklore in Children's Literature: Contents and Discontents"
Handbook, Chapter 16, Rudine
Sims Bishop, "African American Children's Literature: Researching Its
Development, Exploring Its Voices"
Handbook, Chapter 23, Clare
Bradford, "Reading Indigeneity: The Ethics of Interpretation and
Representation"
Book Review: Ayla Goetsch, The Heart Has
its Reasons
Teaching/Conference Presentation: Lora
Keller
3/28
Lois Lenski Lecture
4/4
The Visual
Routledge Companion,
Chapter 9, Mel Gibson, "Picture Books, Comics, and Graphic Novels"
Handbook, Chapter 17, Lawrence
R. Sipe, "The Art of the Picturebook"
Handbook, Chapter 18, Robin
Brenner, "Comics and Graphic Novels"
Book Review: Greg Dennis,
Teaching/Conference Presentation: Elizabeth
Williams
Amy Hicks
4/11
Young Adult Fiction
Routledge Companion, Chapter 8, Rachel
Falconer, "Young Adult Fiction and the Crossover Phenomenon"
Handbook, Chapter 14, Catherine Sheldrick
Ross, "Dime Novels and Series Books"
Handbook, Chapter 22, Karen Coats,
"Growing Up, In Theory"
Book Review: Judith Gedraitis,
Disturbing the Universe
Teaching/Conference Presentation: Ayla
Goetsch
4/18
Nonfiction, Poetry, Storytelling, and Drama
Routledge
Companion, Chapter 11, Evelyn Arizpe and Morag Styles with Abigail
Rokison, "Sidelines: Some Neglected Dimensions of Children's Literature
and its Scholarship"
Handbook, Chapter 19, Laura Apol and
Janine L. Certo, "A Burgeoning Field or a Sorry State: U.S. Poetry for
Children, 1800-Present"
Handbook, Chapter 20, Barbara Keifer and
Melissa I. Wilson, "Nonfiction Literature for Children: Old Assumptions
and New Directions"
Book Review: Meghan Meeusen, Retelling
Stories, Framing Culture: Traditional Story and Metanarrative in
Children's Literature
Kate Brown, Creative Storytelling
Teaching/Conference Presentation: Greg Dennis
4/25
Media
Routledge Companion, Chapter 10,
Margaret Mackey, "Media Adaptations"
Handbook, Chapter 36, Margaret Mackey,
"Spinning Off: Toys, Televisions, Tie-Ins, and Technology"
Wocjik-Andrews, Ian. "What is a Children's
Film?"
Book Review: Andrew Chamberlain
Teaching/Conference Presentation: Meghan
Meeusen
5/2 Final Class
Meeting
Book Review:
Teaching/Conference Presentation:
Teaching/Conference Presentation:
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