A broad aim of this unit is to survey the range of picture books produced for children and, in doing so, to examine the range of possible ways in which words and pictures can be combined to create narrative and to generate meaning. The unit examines the different ways in which pictures and words represent reality, construct narrative and communicate ideology, as well as focussing in more detail on aspects such as textual layout and composition, visual and verbal point of view strategies, strategies for depicting time, space, movement and stasis, style and genre. -- Course Website
Instructor: Dr Robyn McCallum, Dr Victoria Flanagan
Prerequisites: Admission to MA in (English Literature or Children's Literature or Creative Writing) or PGDipArts in Children's Literature or MEChild in Multiliteracies or PGDipEChild in Multiliteracies