Literature for children and youth WH-KON-LitDzieMl

Origin of children's literature - historical overview; most important writers of literature for children;
"Literature for children" or "Childlish literature” - arguments about the definition, the opinions of scholars (an outline of the problems);
The history of the child and childishness in European society - as a background for the development of literature for the period.
Pedagogical attitudes in different epochs, the main thinkers, more important educators of the century and their influence on the
literature for children (selected topics); the child as a literary theme (historical overview) - An analysis of selected texts from the Polish
and world literature;
The importance of diaries and memoirs;
Fairy tale in culture, literature, and education: the cultural importance of fairy stories, fairy tale symbolism, archetypes. Fairy tale over
the centuries - the transformation of genres of fairy tales (the earliest known fairy tales, fairy tale of the Italian Renaissance, French
stories about fairy godmothers and witches of the seventeenth century; the German fairy tale of the nineteenth century; the activities of
the Brothers Grimm; the Biedermeier fairy tale of J. Ch. Andersen, a fairy tale in England of the Victorian age) - discussion and
analysis of selected texts; Fairy tale in psychology and its therapeutic possibilities - Psychoanalytic concepts of a fairy tale by B. Bettelheim.
Fairy tale teraphy - didactics propositions.
Prose for children: the transformation of genres; the most common genres and types in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and
their transformation: a novel for girls, a fantastic novel, travel and adventure novel, novel of manners, psychological novel, historical
novel, and others. (analysis of specific examples);
Some specific methods and techniques of animation of children's reading; issue of literary initiation; issues on "canon of reading list" -
selection of texts appropriate to the age of the child;