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adult perspectives in children's texts
Amazing Bone
Author_Roni Natov
Baby Kochamma
Blake's Lyrics
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Cheshire Cat
childhood innocence studies
childhood studies
children's literary theory
childrenaEUR(TM)s literature analysis
Curiosity Shop
dark pastoral analysis
developmental psychology
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Fairy Tales
Golden Compass
Golden Pot
Grahame
Higglety Pigglety Pop
innocence theory
Kenneth Grahame
Lars Porsena
literary constructions of childhood experience
literary imagination
Lord Asriel
memory and identity in literature
narrative desire
narrative perspective development
Poisonwood Bible
Red Girl
Red King's Dream
Red King’s Dream
romanticism and childhood
Runaway Bunny
Sea Water
Search Light
Secret Garden
Snow Queen
Sophie Mol
Tar Beach
Tom's Midnight Garden
Tom’s Midnight Garden
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780815338826
- Weight: 720g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Nov 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
