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Literature for children and youth

Class at Faculty of Education |
OPNG4G041A

Annotation

The content of the course consists of theoretical foundations and a genre map of literature for children and youth (LPDM), which is approached from the perspective of the ontogeny of reading using an anthropological aspect that opens the way to literary texts primarily intended for children and older readers. The perspective of pedagogy and partly didactics of VCJ is also taken into account, as well as the filmic treatment of selected works and work with new media.

The aim of the course is to provide students with a basic orientation in the field, with an emphasis on the intercultural aspects of reception, and to provide suggestions for the possible use of the acquired knowledge in teaching practice. The topics of the course are: the position of LPDM within the generally understood notion of literature, comparison of literary scientific views on LPDM in the Czech Republic and in German-speaking countries; specificity and function of LPDM; genre spectrum of LPDM with regard to intercultural aspects of reception. century (Christian Morgenstern, Ernst Jandl), poetry as a literary mirror of the customs and traditions of culture; b) fairy tale - characteristics, stratification of the genre (Brothers Grimm); c) traditional adventure novel (Robinson Crusoe, books with Indian themes, science fiction - Joachim Heinrich Campe, David Wyss, Karl May); d) development trends in prose for children since the beginning of the 20th century, the 20th century, the 20th century and the 20th century. (d) developments in children's literature: stories grounded in reality (Erich Kästner and/or the work of contemporary authors - Andreas Steinhöfel), stories with fairy tale and fantasy motifs (Otfried Preußler, Christine Nöstlinger); (d) literature for young people: changing paradigms at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s. (Peter Härtling, Renate Welsh, Jutta Treiber, Gudrun Pausewang, Mirjam Pressler), contemporary prose (Thomas Bach, Wolfgang Herrndorf), stories with a past theme (reflection of World War II - Mirjam Pressler); e) fantasy (Kirsten Boie, Michael Ende, Cornelia Funke, James Krüss); g) Contemporary comics.

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