ENGB35H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Dreamchild
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Engb35 lecture 10 alice"s adventures in wonderland (1865) The dream-child moving through a land, of wonder wild and new, in friendly chat with bird and beast : versions of alice. Fairy tales fantasies: fantasy and children literature. Vast-majority [of children are] on the side of imagination or spiritual. Modern psych: fantasy is part of the child"s development; paves the way for abstract thinking: fantasy depends on impossibility, fantasy tells us about the real world. Ursula k. le guin: fantasy is true, but it"s not factual. The wonderland sets up the location or setting of the fantasy: all the jokes about death (speaking to the adult reader) Subversion of authority: you are old . (p. 35 ~ 37 of alice"s adventure in wonderland book)
