The Poetics of Childhood (Hardcover)

The Poetics of Childhood investigates the sensibility of childhood and the way writers try to recapture it. It explores the earliest conceptions of innocence and the development of literature about children to the present day. 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, so that the child and adult can be seen reflectively - 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 and the issue of childhood to talk about desire. It is a poetic way of imagining the experience of childhood and explores childhood as a particularly fluid and porous time, it also addresses issues of creativity. This is an essential reference for teacher, parents, artists and writers.

General

Imprint:	Crc Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Children's Literature and Culture
Release date:	November 2002
First published:	2003
Authors:	Roni Natov
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	304
ISBN-13:	978-0-8153-3882-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Children's literature studies Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Age groups > Children
LSN:	0-8153-3882-1
Barcode:	9780815338826

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