The Poetics of Childhood: 24 (Children's Literature and Culture) - Hardcover

Natov, Roni

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0815338821 ISBN 13: 9780815338826

Publisher: Routledge, 2002

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Roni Wiliams

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0815338821
• ISBN 13: 9780815338826
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 302