ABSTRACT

Children's literature provides a medium through which writers re-create or approximate the sensibility of a child. But what exactly is this sensibility, and how does it find creative expression in adulthood? What language can portray the seemingly untranslatable experience of a child?The Poetics of Childhood, winner of the 2005 International Resear

chapter |7 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|40 pages

Constructions of Innocence

chapter 3|28 pages

The Body of the Mother

chapter 4|27 pages

Childhood and the Green World

chapter 5|40 pages

The Dark Pastoral

chapter 6|32 pages

The Antipastoral

chapter 7|28 pages

The Contemporary Child in Adult Literature