Infinitely Determinable: Children and Childhood in Modern Literature (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783035803167)

Upon the "discovery of childhood," as named by Philippe Ari s, 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."


Author: Davide Giuriato
ISBN-10: 3035803161
ISBN-13: 9783035803167
Publisher: Diaphanes
Language: English
Published: 07/22/2021
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.40h x 4.60w x 0.90d