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Concluding the history of children's literature. Copyright 2013 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
Looking at Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, and the Wizard of Oz. Why are tales of fantasy the most popular and enduring? Copyright 2013 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
Adventure stories aimed at boys tend to be a lot more exciting and heroic then those for girls. Why is this the case, and what themes are typical in these? Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
Peter Pan, created by the Scottish author J.M. Barrie, is one of the most popular and treasured literary creations of the early 20th century. What makes it so timeless, and how has the story been interpreted over the last hundred years? Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
Adventure stories aimed towards girls are often restricted by domestic elements. Is that their only appeal? Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
The characteristics of an adventure tale, and the golden age of children's literature. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
A history of poetry written by adults for children. Copyright 2013 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
What are the characteristics of poetry written by children? Copyright 2013 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
How medieval literature reflected the changes in the philosophy of childhood. Copyright 2011 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
The affecting and instructing history of chapbooks for children, as developed particularly by Mr John Newbery, printer and bookseller. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
The origins and retellings of Arthurian legends and Robin Hood. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
How heroes work in epic tales, old english tales and literature, the legend of Beowulf, and how these devices are used in the tales of Tolkien. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
The formulaic structure of Disney story-telling, and how they change classic fairy tales. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
The ways of reading into fairy tales, the types of telling, and why they have endured through the ages. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
What is the origin of Little Red Riding Hood, and how has the story been interpreted through the years? Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
Folk tales and fairy tales were not originally created for children. How are they defined and how have they changed? How are the stories evolving back into tales for adults? Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
Myths and legends - are creatures created by a creator? How the origin of myths play through in themes of children's literature. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
What are myths about? Why are these stories labelled as myth while others aren't? How do myths portray life and death? Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
History of Children's Literature will take you back to the roots of story telling and examine the beginnings of children's literature. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
David Beagley introduces the History of Children's Literature. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
How do books work? How are they interpreted and translated? What signs and symbols do we read from their representation? Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
The second lecture giving a conclusion and revision to 'Fiction for Young Adults'. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
The first lecture giving a conclusion and revision to 'Fiction for Young Adults'. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
Once a reader forms a response, how is the next step taken? How are analysis of books communicated to the rest of the world? Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
Over the course of this subject you would have encountered books that you love, books that you loathe, and books that you are indifferent towards. Why is this the case? How does a reader interpret and judge a book? Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
The ways that the story can be delivered, and the questions it raises about the nature of 'the author', 'the reader', and how 'the story' is changed. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
Alternative forms of telling stories. How does poetry and the 'verse novel' change the way a story is told? Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
What is the primary world? Where is our world in The Hunger Games? What are the elements that we can take directly from it? Some of it is going to be decoration, others more direct. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
What are the characteristics of utopias and dystopias in young adult fiction? What are their origins? How does The Hunger Games use these themes? Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
What mechanisms are used to establish a gendered tone to the mechanisms of a story? Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
David Beagley on how the perception of vampires have changed, and how they are portrayed in modern fiction such as Twilight. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
What is the difference in how a book is written for a girl audience or boy audience? Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
David Beagley on how romance is portrayed in fiction for young adults, looking at both Pride and Prejudice and Twilight. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
David Beagley on the way that we hear a particular voice that is telling us a story. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
David Beagley on the idea of identity of the central character in the context of their world, the larger society and their social awareness. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
David Beagley on the formal structure of literary analysis. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
David Beagley on representation and identity in young adult fiction. How do readers seek and determine the self? Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
David Beagley on how the serious themes of war is portrayed in young adult fiction. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
David Beagley on 'the problem novel', and how teen books consider serious social issues. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
David Beagley defines fiction for young adults, and the common themes you can find in them, no matter when they were written. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
David Beagley introduces Fiction for Young Adults - theories around the definition of adolescence, assumptions about Young Adult readers and consequent assumptions about Young Adult Literature. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
David Beagley concludes the subject of Genres in Children's Literature. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
David Beagley continues lecturing on traditional literature. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
David Beagley continues lecturing on traditional literature. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
David Beagley continues lecturing on children's poetry. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
David Beagley on children's poetry, the themes and how it develops. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
David Beagley (Education, La Trobe University) on the characteristics of classic children's books. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
David Beagley on some more historical realism in children's literature. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
David Beagley on historical realism in children's literature. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
David Beagley on how children's fiction deals realistically with social issues. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
David Beagley on realism in fantasy fiction. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
David Beagley with an evaluation of fantasy literature for children. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
David Beagley on Harry Potter and high fantasy. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
David Beagley begins to look at the popular genre of fantasy. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
David Beagley on the hero fantasy in children's literature. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
David Beagley on Graphic Novels, Anime and Manga. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
David Beagley on caricatures, cartoons and comics. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
David Beagley on postmodern picture books, and 'Voices in the Park' by Anthony Browne. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
David Beagley on postmodern picture books. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
David Beagley on author and illustrator devices in picture books. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
David Beagley on picture books for older readers. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
David Beagley discusses modernist and traditional picture books. Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
David Beagley introduces Genres in Children's Literature - what are picture books, and what are their literary design elements? Copyright 2012 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
David Beagley introduces Genres in Children's Literature Copyright 2011 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
Looking at the wider analysis of postcolonial literature, through the window of orientalism. Copyright 2011 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
Postcolonialism isn't just based on skin colour or ethnicity - The Beat of the Drum tells about this process within an Irish context. Copyright 2011 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
Using the example of Pocahantas, how is the real world rewritten into something that treads the line between fact and fiction? Copyright 2011 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
The common themes and reality of the western genre. Copyright 2011 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
How to read and interpret the literature of other cultures, using 'Chinese Cinderella' as an example. Copyright 2011 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
This lecture uses Gary Disher’s The Divine Wind to show how stories of an historical event can be biased in their telling, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. Copyright 2011 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
The evolution of Australia's multiculturalism, and the representation of 'others'. Copyright 2011 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
Are we one, or are we many? How is one culture distinguished from another, even within the same country? Copyright 2011 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
How is one culture distinguished from another? What cultural markers are explored in literature? Copyright 2011 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
Aboriginal voice or European voice? Does it matter? Copyright 2011 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
Is there a difference between an Aboriginal story and a European story? Copyright 2011 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
Black armbands, history wars, and how the stolen generation of Aboriginals is reflected in Australian literature. Copyright 2011 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
What is the reality of the telling of Aboriginal history? How has European voices influenced the story that has been told? Copyright 2011 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
How is the Aboriginal culture and identity represented in Australian literature? Copyright 2011 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
Where are postcolonional voices in literature coming from? Copyright 2011 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
Moving from a colonial attitude to post-colonial - Rudyard Kipling to Kim. Copyright 2011 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
How and why are colonial texts rewritten in later years? Copyright 2011 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
How are stereotypes portrayed in children's literature, and where did they come from? Copyright 2011 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
How postcolonialism has influenced children's literature. Copyright 2011 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.
David Beagley introduces Postcolonial Literature for Children. Copyright 2011 David Beagley / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.