The Poetics of Childhood

1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-8153-3882-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 591 g

Reihe: Children's Literature and Culture

The Poetics of Childhood investigates the sensibility of childhood and the ways writers try to recapture it. It explores the earliest conceptions of innocence and the development of literature about children through contemporary times. It encompasses the pastoral, the dark pastoral, the anti-pastoral; it addresses picture books, fantasy, and realism. It looks with originality at the literature of childhood, inclusive of children's literature and literature about childhood, so that the child and adult can be seen reflexively--the child in the adult and the various stages of childhood as they are remembered and retained in adulthood. It confronts issues of primal and socially constructed desire adn the use of childhood to talk about desire. It is a poetics, a way of imagining the experience of childhood and explores childhood as a particulary fluid and porous time, it also addresses issues of creativity. This is an essential reference for teachers, parents, artists, and writers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Natov, Roni

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editor’s Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Constructions of Innocence; Chapter 2 Carroll and Grahame: Two Versions of Pastoral; Chapter 3 The Body of the Mother; Chapter 4 Childhood and the Green World; Chapter 5 The Dark Pastoral; Chapter 6 The Antipastoral; Chapter 7 The Contemporary Child in Adult Literature; Chapter 8 The Contemporary Child in Children’s Literature;

Über Autor(innen)

Roni Wiliams