Infinitely Determinable

Children and Childhood in Modern Literature
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-3-0358-0316-7
Verlag: diaphanes

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 118 mm x 190 mm, Gewicht: 278 g

Reihe: Think art

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.”

Autoren/Hrsg.

Giuriato, Davide

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bowman, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

9 - 19Introduction (Davide Giuriato)21 - 37Idylls of Childhood (Hoffmann—Stifter) (Davide Giuriato)39 - 47Christmas (Davide Giuriato)49 - 67Rescuing Children (Stifter) (Davide Giuriato)69 - 100On the Threshold of Writing (Rilke—Walser—Benjamin) (Davide Giuriato)69 - 100On the Threshold of Writing (Rilke—Walser—Benjamin) (Davide Giuriato)101 - 111Becoming-Child (Walser) (Davide Giuriato)115 - 133Little Hans (Freud—Kafka) (Davide Giuriato)137 - 153This Briefest Childhood (Kafka) (Davide Giuriato)155 - 176An Angel’s Grace, a Devil’s Grin (Davide Giuriato)177 - 211Notes (Davide Giuriato)213 - 214Acknowledgments (Davide Giuriato)215 - 232Bibliography (Davide Giuriato)

9 - 19Introduction (Davide Giuriato)21 - 37Idylls of Childhood (Hoffmann—Stifter) (Davide Giuriato)39 - 47Christmas (Davide Giuriato)49 - 67Rescuing Children (Stifter) (Davide Giuriato)69 - 100On the Threshold of Writing (Rilke—Walser—Benjamin) (Davide Giuriato)69 - 100On the Threshold of Writing (Rilke—Walser—Benjamin) (Davide Giuriato)101 - 111Becoming-Child (Walser) (Davide Giuriato)115 - 133Little Hans (Freud—Kafka) (Davide Giuriato)137 - 153This Briefest Childhood (Kafka) (Davide Giuriato)155 - 176An Angel’s Grace, a Devil’s Grin (Davide Giuriato)177 - 211Notes (Davide Giuriato)213 - 214Acknowledgments (Davide Giuriato)215 - 232Bibliography (Davide Giuriato)

Über Autor(innen)

Giuriato, Davide
Davide Giuriato ist ordentlicher Professor für Neuere deutsche Literatur an der Universität Zürich. Weitere Publikationen: Mikrographien. Zu einer Poetologie des Schreibens in Walter Benjamins Kindheitserinnerungen (2006); 'klar und deutlich'. Ästhetik des Kunstlosen im 18./19. Jahrhundert (2015); Adalbert Stifter-Handbuch (Hg. mit Christian Begemann, 2017).