CWL 375

Spring 2014

Part of Term 1
Jan 21-May 7
Scandinavian Sexualities
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Credit: 3 hours.

Same as GWS 375 and SCAN 375. See SCAN 375.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
52543
Lecture-Discussion
M
3:30PM -4:50PM
TR
Foreign Languages Building
Malekin, B
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/21/14-05/07/14
Section Info:
In this course we will explore the changing understanding of childhood and youth in Scandinavian literature and film with a comparative focus on the US and the United Kingdom. Course materials include children?s literature and classic accounts of childhood in fiction, film and related media, as complemented by theoretical reading. Works analyzed range from Hans-Christian Andersen's fairy tales and Astrid Lindgren's world literature classic Pippi Longstocking to contemporary youth fiction and cinema. We will address questions about what constitutes children?s literature in Scandinavia and in a comparative context with the US and the United Kingdom; how childhood is construed in books self-described as children's literature as well as in adult-audience fiction and memoirs; and how representations of childhood correlate with evolving ideas about family formation, child-rearing, the welfare state, and education in twentieth- and twenty-first century Scandinavia. Course goals include gaining knowledge of important texts, concepts, genres, and narrative strategies in children?s and youth literature and understanding these in terms of social-historical contexts in Scandinavia and the US. The course will offer students a comparative context with which to gain a fuller understanding of Scandinavian children's and youth culture in correlation to American educational and literary traditions, and will provide students with an opportunity to gain in-depth insight into a culture known internationally as a forerunner in children's rights and education. The thematic divisions reflect the following concerns: I. Psychoanalytic approaches to children?s literature II. Constructions of the childhood self and the Bildungsroman III. Education, feminism, and social reform IV. Individualism and the welfare state V. Political radicalism VI. Gender, Sexuality, and Masculinity
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