ENG 222 Study Guide - Final Guide: Brothers Grimm, Jack Zipes, Intertextuality

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 222
• Professor: Lorraine Janzen

Document Summary

Eng222: fairytales and fantasies final exam study notes. Lecture 8: modern fantasy literature for children (story of the amulet) Ideologies of the era: height of british imperialism, hierarchal, patriarchal, race, gender, class. Setting: magic helpers adapted or inherited, victorian fairytales very interested in morals. Mode of production illustrated serial fiction in the strand magazine. Setting in contemporary england, critiqued conditions of modern industrial imperialism. Modern view of childhood (nesbit broke free of victorian writing conventions by representing children realistically in the pov of children) Magic used in new (non-dialectic) way: comic device & serious metaphor. Children are representing imperialistic ideologies and assumptions remarks like we don"t need to conquer you (to egyptian), so clean compared to london (past was so clean, london so polluted), childish prattling of glories of england (prompts invasion) Separation of family motivates quest for unification. Uniting two halves of amulet will achieve heart"s desire. Time travel to search for missing half of amulet in the past.