ENGB35H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Ursula K. Le Guin, Unapologetic, Fairy Tale
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Disobedience was almost being glamourized in treasure island, whereas it was greatly discouraged in rc. Disobedience is liberating in this book, obvious childhood innocence. Alice: playful child reader/imaginative child reader: the child of nature, filled with nostalgic longing for childhood, experimentation with homophones and puns; rich in language (make. Alice is unapologetic, and does not get along with the creatures from wonderland, they are condescending and always arguing: the dream-child moving through a land. Romantic emphasis on the imagination: vast majority [of children are] on the side of imagination or spiritual sensation" william. There is something implicitly sacred about childhood imagination: modern psych: fantasy part of child development; paves the way for abstract thinking. Fantasy tells us about the real" world: ursula k le guin: fantasy is true, of course. Wonderland is the liberation from everyday reality, an alternate world nothing like our own. Death, algebra quips speak to an adult reader, not the child reader.
