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History, magistra vitae, is traditionally linked with children’s literature, both as the subject of course books, enriched with
images and chronologies, and as narration, portraying events or characters / heroes / protagonists of a given historical period. In
both instances, such relationship functions through the “emplotment” described by Hayden White as essential to the
discursive nature of all texts – history included.
Scientific Coordinator Francesca Orestano, Chair in English Literature
Università degli Studi di Milano [email protected]
Organizing Committee
Marco Canani – [email protected] Angela Anna Iuliucci – [email protected]
Children’s Literature in Italy
A Website Devoted to the Study of Children’s Books and Literature in Italy
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con il patrocinio di
CHILDREN’S LITERATURE AND THE TEACHING OF HISTORY /
LETTERATURA PER L’INFANZIA E INSEGNAMENTO DELLA STORIA
8 novembre 2013
Aula Crociera Alta di Giurisprudenza Via Festa del Perdono 7 – ore 9.30
*************************************************** 9:30 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION 10:00 PETER HUNT
Emeritus Cardiff University, Visiting Professor, Università di Venezia Ca’ Foscari Fiction Writing History: Truth, Illusion and Ideology in English Language Historical Fiction for Children
10:30 DAVID PAROISSIEN
University of Buckingham Wringing the Necks of Parrots: the Mixed Modes of Dickens’s “little history of England”
11:00 COFFEE BREAK 11:30 HANNAH FIELD
University of Lincoln History Unfolds: Two Victorian Children’s Panoramas of Kings and Queens
12:00 JOHN MEDDEMMEN
Università degli Studi di Pavia “God for Harry, England and St. George”. Mediaeval English History in the Novels of G. A. Henty.
12:30 LAURA TOSI,
Università di Venezia Ca’ Foscari “These plays might almost serve as a handbook to patriotism”: Prose adaptations of Henry V for Children, 1893-‐1911, Nationalism, Empire and War.
13:00 LUNCH BREAK
*************************************************** 14:00 LINDSAY MYERS
National University of Ireland, Galway L’Aeroplano di Girandolino -‐ Un romanzo sulla guerra?
14:30 MARIANGELA MOSCA BONSIGNORE
Università degli Studi di Torino Contemporary History in Illustrated Alphabets. From Charles II and William of Orange to the First World War.
15:00 FRANCESCA ORESTANO
Università degli Studi di Milano Salvator Gotta, the “Piccolo Alpino” and the Young “Balilla”: Militarism and the Rise of Fascism in Italian Fiction, from the 1890s to the 1930s
15:30 ANGELA ANNA IULIUCCI Università degli Studi di Milano In Flanders’ Fields: Recent Representations of the War
16:00 COFFEE BREAK 16:30 MARCO CANANI
Università degli Studi di Milano The Displaced Subjectivity of the Refugee Child: Judith Kerr’s When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
17:00 MARTINO NEGRI Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca Memory Threatened. Story-‐Telling Trees
17:30 MARGARET ROSE
Università degli Studi di Milano Alan Bennett’s “The History Boys”: A Play Addressing How We Write and Teach History
18:00 CONCLUDING REMARKS