2017-2018-1

YSE_BTK011-200

_Szeminárium, _Gyakorlati jegy

YSE_BTK01, Erasmus kurzusok (BTK)

YSE_BTK01, Erasmus kurzusok (BTK)

BTK Bölcsészettudományi Kar (BTK Bölcsészettudományi Kar)

heti 2.00

4

nincs korlát

konfirmálandó

In the Victorian era one stream of the newly emerging genre of children's literature was diverted
to the 'amorality' of imaginative literature, offering instead of moral realism, didactic messages and
integrated happy endings a more complex and ambiguous image of childhood, reinvented as a realm of (impossible) ideals, dreams, desires and liminal subversions. The course proposes to examine these 'unconventional' pieces of children's fiction widely read and enjoyed by adults too. We shall analyse 'high fantasy' novels (Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies, George McDonald's The Princess and the Goblin, Lewis Carrol's Through the Looking Glass), short tales (Christina Rossetti's "Speaking Likenesses," John Ruskin's "The King of the Golden River," Juliana Horathia Ewing's "Amelia and the Dwarfs," Oscar Wilde's "The Fisherman and his Soul," E. Nesbit's "Melisande, or, Long and Short Division") and poems (Robert Browning's "The Pied Piper of Hamlin") with the threefold aim to interface Victorian and contemporary imaginings and phantasmagorias, to draw intertextual parallels with tales from Andersen, Perrault, the Grimm Brothers, classic English fairy tales or their recent subversive rewritings, and to reflect on various theoretical (re)considerations of fantasies and fairy tales ranging from Rosemary Jackson's to Bruno Bettelheim's or Peter Hunt's ideas. The semester ends with the screening of Jan Svankmajer's bizarre animation film Alice.