The poetics of childhood
About this book
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.
Reader Profile
3.7/5 · 6 readers · 296 pages · ≈ 5 h 29 m · Moderate
How long does it take to read The poetics of childhood?
About ≈ 5 h 29 m — 296 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is The poetics of childhood?
296 pages in its most-read edition.
Is The poetics of childhood in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Who wrote The poetics of childhood?
Roni Natov.