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1. State and describe a number of current approaches about the relationship of literary discourse, literary representation, and ideology.
2. Describe and discuss methods of ideological use of literature in traditional educational environments.
3. Explain current theories of literary understanding, which are widely acknowledged in the field of children’s literature theory and criticism that consider perception of literary and visual elements equally important understanding dimensions, together with their active appreciation.
4. Analyze ideology manifestations in different textual aspects, such as theme, figures of speech and tropes, style, discourse organization, narrative economy (particularly characters’ reported and inner discourse, point of view and meta-narrative elements such as description and narrative commentary), intertextual and generic relations, as well as in the narrative and visual convergence.
5. Discuss the importance of literary analysis and teaching methods that enhance identities of sufficient, perceptive and critical readers, in the context of teaching practice.
6. Examine the role of illustration in children’s picture books and to recognize its cultural, social and historical messages, as well as recognizing the relation and interaction of picture and text in meaning production.

·       Literary understanding and basic models of its description. The significance of active / critical reading. Louise Rosenblatt’s transactive theory, Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory about understanding in human sciences, and Robert E. Scholes’ theory of understanding.

·       Approaches about the relation of literary discourse,literary representation / literary rhetoric and morphology with ideology:modernism and 20^th century theories’ emphasis on literary autonomy,social agendas’ priorities and the problematic of political correctness in children’s literature, cultural criticism and Marxist criticism, Bakhtinian criticism of novelistic discourse and dialogism. Ideology and its “ideology” indifferent critical traditions.

·       Current social and cultural issues in children’sliterature. Alterity, gender, social conflict, authority / power, language and history.

·       Ideology manifestations in thematic and narrative economy. Analysis of exemplary texts.

·       The ideology of intertextual and generic connections of the literary text. Analysis of exemplary texts.

·       Ideology, style and historical fiction in children’s literature: realism, modernism and postmodernism. Analysis of exemplary texts.

·       Dialogism and children’s literature. Social discourses and the polyphonic children’s novel.

·       Picture and ideology, Reading and interpretative procedures of visual messages. The significance of illustration in children’s picture books. The complex dynamics of pictures and text interaction. Analysis of exemplary texts.

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