HISTORY OF THE PUBLISHING AND THE BOOK FOR CHILDHOOD

The course aims to develop a general knowledge about the birth and spreading of educational publishing in the contemporary age.

Attention will be mainly focused on the origins of books for popular education, school-books and children’s books in the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries, proposing an analysis of the problems and conditions of children’s publishing in the contemporary cultural context.

The condition of popular educational books and school-books.

The publishing system and educational praxis in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries and their patterns and dynamics of development.

Educational writings and models of popular education: cultural traditions and ideological references.

Educational and school publishing and the education of Italian people: from the Unification of Italy to the Fascist era.

Cultural production, publishing system and problems of Southern Italy between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century.

Publishers, books and children’s literature in the contemporary cultural context.

Groundings:

1. - G. CHIOSSO, Libri di scuola e mercato editoriale. Dal primo Ottocento alla Riforma Gentile, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2013

2. - L. TODARO (a cura di), Spazi della parola, tempo dell’infanzia, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2016

Specialised Course: (The children's books in Italy after the WWII and the Dino Buzzati's works)

3.- L. TODARO (a cura di), Il puer e la fortezza. Dimensioni artistiche, spazi dell'immaginazione e narrativa per l'infanzia in Dino Buzzati. (in corso di pubblicazione - 2017)

4.- D. BUZZATI, La famosa invasione degli orsi in Sicilia, Milano, Mondadori, 2015

In order to pass their exams, students will also be required to study the lecture notes prepared by the teacher, which will be made available during the academic lessons time.