Infinitely Determinable : Children and Childhood in Modern Literature / Davide Giuriato ; translated from the German by Paul Bowman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giuriato, Davide, 1972- author.

Contributor:

Bowman, Paul, 1971- translator.

Series:

Think art (Zurich, Switzerland)

Think Art Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Zürich : Diaphanes, [2021]

Language Note:

Translated from the German.

Summary:

"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." "-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

3-0358-0376-5