Library Guides: English 4996: Guide to Resources: Childhood in Literature: Class Information

Important Dates

September 22: Project One Workshop

September 29: Project One Due

October 20: Project Two Workshop

October 27: Project Two Due

November 19: Project Three and Four Workshop

December 1: Project Three Due

December 15: Project Four Due

Course Texts:

(cp) indicates the text is located in the course pack for the class.

Poetry	Fiction	Reference and Literary Criticism
Lucie Brock-Broido, “Jessica, From the Well” (cp) Louise Glück, selections from Averno Randell Jarrell, selected poems (cp) Li-Young Lee, selections from Behind My Eyes Audre Lorde, selected poems (cp) Thylias Moss, Slave Moth Patrick Phillips, selection from Boy (cp)	Henry James, What Maisie Knew Amélie Nothomb, The Character of Rain (Timothy Bent, trans.) Flannery O’Connor, “The River” (cp) Helen Oyeyemi, The Icarus Girl Justin Torres, We the Animals Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace (Elizabeth Rokken, trans.)	Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Reverie, excerpt (cp) Chloe Buckley/Sarah Illot, Telling It Slant: Critical Approaches to Helen Oyeyemi, excerpts (cp) Kenneth Kidd, “Queer Theory’s Child and Children’s Literary Studies” (cp) James Marten, The History of Childhood: A Very Short Introduction Roisín Laing, “What Maisie Knew: Nineteenth Century Selfhood in the Mind of the Child” (cp)

Poetry

Fiction

Reference and Literary Criticism

Lucie Brock-Broido, “Jessica, From the Well” (cp)
Louise Glück, selections from Averno
Randell Jarrell, selected poems (cp)
Li-Young Lee, selections from Behind My Eyes
Audre Lorde, selected poems (cp)
Thylias Moss, Slave Moth
Patrick Phillips, selection from Boy (cp)

Henry James, What Maisie Knew
Amélie Nothomb, The Character of Rain (Timothy Bent, trans.)
Flannery O’Connor, “The River” (cp)
Helen Oyeyemi, The Icarus Girl
Justin Torres, We the Animals
Tarjei Vesaas, The Ice Palace (Elizabeth Rokken, trans.)

Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Reverie, excerpt (cp)
Chloe Buckley/Sarah Illot, Telling It Slant: Critical Approaches to Helen Oyeyemi, excerpts (cp)
Kenneth Kidd, “Queer Theory’s Child and Children’s Literary Studies” (cp)
James Marten, The History of Childhood: A Very Short Introduction
Roisín Laing, “What Maisie Knew: Nineteenth Century Selfhood in the Mind of the Child” (cp)

Course Instructor:

Professor Gabriel Fried

Email: friedg@missouri.edu

Office: 331 Tate

Office Hours via Zoom: Wednesday 1-2 pm, Friday 11-12 pm