ENGL213

Children's Classics: Popular Children's Texts and their Representation on Film

15 points

Not offered 2022, offered in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021

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Description

Children's Classics teaches the genre-specific nature of children's literature, its socio-historical contexts, and the significance of its re-readings as film. It introduces a selection of enduring children's texts, illustrating the importance to literary production of changing cultural context, demonstrating the importance of intertextuality in children's literature and how texts change when filmed, and promotes the skills of reading and writing.

Prerequisites

Any 15 points at 100 level from ENGL, or
any 60 points at 100 level from the Schedule V of the BA.

Restrictions

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