Infinitely Determinable
Subtitle: Children and Childhood in Modern Literature
Publisher: diaphanes
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9783035803167
Description: "Upon the "discovery of childhood," as named by Philippe Arie  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.""--