Saturday, 31 October 2015

Timing stress/chapter 1 structure

I've had a bit of a stress this week as I've felt like Ive got no time and even with going to atlas three times this week I've not made enough progress to start my draft. From this stress I started my chapter 1 structure on the buses to and fro from my dentist appointment.


  • Fairytales at the start of the essay
  • quote about the origin of all children's literature pg 25
  • articles about fairy tales 
  • article about fairytales and nazis 
  • quote about rehashing fairytales pg 26 - segue 
  • Enid Blyton - old stories for a new audience pg 41
  • A.J.P Taylor a mixture of escapism and wish fulfilment pg 43
  • Tolkien segue? escapism (world building) but with strong ties to reality and obvious message / use of religion (as opposed to Enid Blyton)
  • Quote about how LOFTR drew on memories of 1ww but was also influenced by the 2ww (mention of working class being more prominent post 1ww) (segue between escapism and reality)
  • Atomic fiction here? mention of how there are ties between mt. doom and atomic warfare
  • segue into W.E. johns and Biggles use joint quote with Tolkien about memories of 1ww pg5
  • leads to feminist character mention pg 6
  • say about while some made whole worlds different from our own and the situation we were in, others had either an existing series of books or comics what already existed in our reality that had little choice but to show the war. these were able to to talk more blatantly about the current mood and mindset of the time.
  • brave activist quote pg 7
  • Johns uses Biggles as his political voice pg 91 (also mention about child characters were also able to do this as they could speak in that honest blunt way that children do)
  • use of unpleasant characters to denounce unsavoury traits pg 50 
  • Biggles drew attention to things "polite" middle class children shouldn't know about pg 88
  • isolationism was the zeitgeist pg 14 when not it was very inter nation (friendly to our allies) pg 20   inclusive and start of better diversity pg 22-25 ( include here or after Biggles? will tie in well with contemporary) 
  • Biggles was translated into Norwegian  and Swedish which may explain why he wrote about the finish war pg 60 despite never going there (which led to the location seeming less real than usual) 
  • Johns made it clear that there was nothing phoney about the Finish war pg 60 
  • segue into Fin. war being the root of the moomins and loop back to escapism, world building, religion and root in folklore 
  • how conflict isn't always literal fighting
  • link Tove's feminism with feminist pilot mentioned earlier. also sexism
  • Thingummy & bob - lesbian 
  • Look through life art words for more details

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