{"id":55,"date":"2010-01-10T15:35:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T19:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/gruner\/teaching\/english-400-description-and-goals\/"},"modified":"2017-07-10T11:15:18","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T15:15:18","slug":"english-400-description-and-goals","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/gruner\/teaching\/english-400-description-and-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"English 400: Description and Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong>English 400\/4: Theology &amp; Children&#8217;s Literature<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Spring 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Elisabeth Gruner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Friday 12 \u2013 2:20, Ryland Hall 204<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Office Hours: Thursday, 2-4 pm, Ryland 303-C, 289-8298<\/p>\n<p>Course Description<\/p>\n<p>According to Ursula LeGuin, &#8220;fantasy is the natural, the appropriate, language for the recounting of the spiritual journey and the struggle of good and evil in the soul.&#8221;\u00a0 Philip Pullman has similarly claimed that\u00a0 &#8220;There are some themes, some subjects too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children&#8217;s book.&#8221;\u00a0 This course will test the validity of these statements, examining children&#8217;s literature from the 20<sup>th<\/sup> and 21<sup>st<\/sup> centuries, especially fantasy literature, through the lens of theology.\u00a0 Texts read will include novels by C.S. Lewis, Philip Pullman, Madeleine L&#8217;Engle, Ursula LeGuin, and David Almond, and essays and criticism from a variety of sources.\u00a0 Requirements include a heavy reading load, frequent and well-informed discussion, and a research paper as well as two shorter papers and class presentations.<\/p>\n<p>My goals for the course are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Students will read and analyze a variety of literary works for children.<\/li>\n<li>Students will become acquainted with and make both written and oral use of some of the central terms of literary and theological analysis.<\/li>\n<li>Students will become expert on a self-chosen topic and both:<\/li>\n<li>present their findings to the class, and<\/li>\n<li>write an article-length (15-20 page) analysis of their topic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English 400\/4: Theology &amp; Children&#8217;s Literature Spring 2010 Elisabeth Gruner Friday 12 \u2013 2:20, Ryland Hall 204 Office Hours: Thursday, 2-4 pm, Ryland 303-C, 289-8298 Course Description According to Ursula LeGuin, &#8220;fantasy is the natural, the appropriate, language for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/gruner\/teaching\/english-400-description-and-goals\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1857,"featured_media":0,"parent":5,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-55","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/gruner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/gruner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/gruner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/gruner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1857"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/gruner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/gruner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/gruner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.richmond.edu\/gruner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}