The Poetics of Childhood

by Roni Natov

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815338821
• ISBN13: 9780815338826
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"