Roni Natov

The Poetics of Childhood

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780815338826
• ISBN-10: 0815338821
• Artikelnr.: 21716090

Autorenporträt

Roni Wiliams

Inhaltsangabe

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