Infinitely Determinable

Children and Childhood in Modern Literature
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-3-0358-0316-7
Verlag: diaphanes

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 118 mm x 190 mm, Gewicht: 278 g

Reihe: DENKT KUNST

Upon the “discovery of childhood,” as named by Philippe Ariès, bourgeois culture and modern literature marked out an arcane realm that, while scarcely accessible for adults, acted as a space for projections of the most contradictory kind and diverse ideological purposes: childhood. As this book reveals, from the eighteenth century onwards, the child increasingly came into focus in literature as a mysterious creature. Now the child seems a strange being, constantly unsettling and alienating, although exposed to ongoing territorialization. This is possible because the space of ‘childhood’ is essentially blank and indefinite. Modernity, therefore, has discovered it as a zone, in the words of Friedrich Schiller of “boundless determinability.”

Autoren/Hrsg.

Giuriato, Davide

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bowman, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

9
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19
Introduction
(Davide Giuriato)

21
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37
Idylls of Childhood (Hoffmann—Stifter)
(Davide Giuriato)

39
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47
Christmas
(Davide Giuriato)

49
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67
Rescuing Children (Stifter)
(Davide Giuriato)

69
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100
On the Threshold of Writing (Rilke—Walser—Benjamin)
(Davide Giuriato)

69
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100
On the Threshold of Writing (Rilke—Walser—Benjamin)
(Davide Giuriato)

101
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111
Becoming-Child (Walser)
(Davide Giuriato)

115
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133
Little Hans (Freud—Kafka)
(Davide Giuriato)

137
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153
This Briefest Childhood (Kafka)
(Davide Giuriato)

155
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176
An Angel’s Grace, a Devil’s Grin
(Davide Giuriato)

177
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211
Notes
(Davide Giuriato)

213
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214
Acknowledgments
(Davide Giuriato)

215
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232
Bibliography
(Davide Giuriato)

9	-	19	Introduction	(Davide Giuriato)
21	-	37	Idylls of Childhood (Hoffmann—Stifter)	(Davide Giuriato)
39	-	47	Christmas	(Davide Giuriato)
49	-	67	Rescuing Children (Stifter)	(Davide Giuriato)
69	-	100	On the Threshold of Writing (Rilke—Walser—Benjamin)	(Davide Giuriato)
69	-	100	On the Threshold of Writing (Rilke—Walser—Benjamin)	(Davide Giuriato)
101	-	111	Becoming-Child (Walser)	(Davide Giuriato)
115	-	133	Little Hans (Freud—Kafka)	(Davide Giuriato)
137	-	153	This Briefest Childhood (Kafka)	(Davide Giuriato)
155	-	176	An Angel’s Grace, a Devil’s Grin	(Davide Giuriato)
177	-	211	Notes	(Davide Giuriato)
213	-	214	Acknowledgments	(Davide Giuriato)
215	-	232	Bibliography	(Davide Giuriato)

Über Autor(innen)

Giuriato, Davide
Davide Giuriato ist ordentlicher Professor für Neuere deutsche Literatur an der Universität Zürich. Weitere Publikationen: Mikrographien. Zu einer Poetologie des Schreibens in Walter Benjamins Kindheitserinnerungen (2006); »klar und deutlich«. Ästhetik des Kunstlosen im 18./19. Jahrhundert (2015); Adalbert Stifter-Handbuch (Hg. mit Christian Begemann, 2017).