ENGL 2810Y Lecture 4: Children’s Literature – Lecture 4
Document Summary
Voice action gender: socio-historical & psychoanalytic approaches to fairy tales bruno. It can have deep psychological effects on a child: moderation and safe place, bettelheim says children should not be protected from the harshness of reality. Psychoanalysis and feminism in the 19th century: freud and jung, sex and death rates, adult behaviour formed by childhood trauma, feminism and psychoanalysis, technological and socio-historical innovations. Bettelheim: 4 arguments for child psychology: 1. Do not belittle children with safe stories : 2. Let kids work out their anxieties independently : 3. Kids know that happily ever after is not literal . Hans christian andersen (1805-1875: odd men with unique insights, oral traditions of scandinavia (through mom and grandma, origin of literary tales. Oscar wilde (1854-1900: style scandal literary career, the picture of dorian gray (1890, born and raised in ireland by lord and lady william and jane, both active in celtic revival.
