Infinitely Determinable – Children and Childhood in Modern Literature
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- ISBN 9783035803167
- Weight: 278g
- Dimensions: 120 x 189mm
- Publication Date: 18 May 2021
- Publisher: Diaphanes AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Upon the “discovery of childhood,” as named by Philippe Ariès, bourgeois culture and modern literature marked out an arcane realm that, while scarcely accessible for adults, acted as a space for projections of the most contradictory kind and diverse ideological purposes: childhood. As this book reveals, from the eighteenth century onwards, the child increasingly came into focus in literature as a mysterious creature. Now the child seems a strange being, constantly unsettling and alienating, although exposed to ongoing territorialization. This is possible because the space of ‘childhood’ is essentially blank and indefinite. Modernity, therefore, has discovered it as a zone, in the words of Friedrich Schiller of “boundless determinability."
Davide Giuriato is professor of modern German literature at the University of Zurich. Paul Bowman studied history and philosophy in Sydney and Berlin before – on the cusp to the new millennium – turning his attention to translation.
