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Instructors: Mirjam Haas
Event type:
hybrid: Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.874.210
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Requirements / organisational issues:
In this seminar, we will consider different linguistic approaches and the way they invite us to think and write about children’s literature in an academic context. There will be three major topics: Making (Non)Sense, Language as Matter and Language that Does. The texts we will read cover a broad range of periods and text forms, from Lewis Carroll’s novel Alice in Wonderland (1865) to Kate DiCamillo’s picture book La La La: A Story of Hope (2017). Our focus will always be on language, so be prepared to read secondary literature on linguistic topics – which is generally very readable. Please note that you will work with one text (in the widest sense, from video game to poetry) as well as a literary linguistics approach/focus of your own choice throughout the semester (probably within small groups), so start thinking about a text that you would like to work with.
We will read most texts in excerpts that I will provide, nevertheless, please be aware that this is a reading-intensive course, there will be weekly assignments and all students will hand in a short written work over the semester. Texts will be provided on https://moodle.uni-mainz.de. Attendance in the first session is mandatory.
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