{"id":78,"date":"2012-01-11T18:25:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T22:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/gruner\/?page_id=78"},"modified":"2017-07-10T11:16:12","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T15:16:12","slug":"english-400-section-4-reading-reading-metafiction-and-intertextuality-in-literature-for-all-ages","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/gruner\/teaching\/english-400-section-4-reading-reading-metafiction-and-intertextuality-in-literature-for-all-ages\/","title":{"rendered":"English 400, section 4: Reading Reading&#8211;Metafiction and Intertextuality in Literature for All Ages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That prototypical novel for children, <em>Alice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland<\/em>, begins with a scene of reading\u2014sort of. Alice is in flight from her sister\u2019s engagement with a book \u201cwithout pictures or conversations\u201d when she first sets off down the rabbit hole. Jane Eyre, on the other hand, takes refuge in a book from her oppressive cousins at the beginning of the novel that bears her name\u2014and ends up having it thrown at her head. The subject of this class, then, is the way books figure within books\u2014especially, how reading and literacy figure within novels for children, young adults, and adults. What do books tell us about themselves? Do they teach us how to read? Do they comment on each other? Course texts include J<em>ane Eyre<\/em> (Bront\u00eb), <em>The Eyre Affair<\/em> (Fforde), <em>Cold Comfort Farm<\/em> (Gibbons), <em>Alice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland<\/em> (Carroll), <em>UnLunDun<\/em> (Mieville), <em>The Wee Free Men<\/em> (Pratchett), and selections from \u00a0<em>Metafiction<\/em> (Waugh), <em>Proust and the Squid<\/em> (Wolf), and other literary and critical texts to be named later. Requirements will include a heavy reading load, informed class discussion, and both brief papers and a sustained research project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That prototypical novel for children, Alice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland, begins with a scene of reading\u2014sort of. Alice is in flight from her sister\u2019s engagement with a book \u201cwithout pictures or conversations\u201d when she first sets off down the rabbit hole. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/gruner\/teaching\/english-400-section-4-reading-reading-metafiction-and-intertextuality-in-literature-for-all-ages\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":364,"featured_media":0,"parent":5,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-78","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/gruner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/gruner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/gruner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/gruner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/gruner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/gruner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/gruner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/gruner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}