is for the Northern Lights.
Linda Sexson guest speaker:
- Is there such a thing as children's lit?
- Didactic: morals (reveals the nature of the divine god), etiquette, nature (what is it?)
- pragmatic: practical lessons, which is usually a good thing
- all of this can be turned into humor
- politics today are about hatred
- metaphysical/physical- speculative: they want the child to ask questions
- Literacy: when a child becomes literate and curious they begin to be less of a child
- all children's lit has to do with adult nostalgia: longing for home, what adults wish to experience again
- books of nature lead to thinking about god:
- influence from protestant Reformation (reading)
- Enlightenment (deism vs theism) or (rationalism vs irrationalism)
- intended for the 'unsaved' that they considered 'children' or little adults
- John Goode: children's author
- facsimile: made to look exactly like the old one
- Noah Webster: speller before dictionary in 1824, regulated American language
- imaginative literature: Bluebeard for children? historically, psychologically, interesting, didactic, training for life, ambivalence
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