03746nam 22006135 450 991098808690332120251108110033.01-5315-1053-110.1515/9781531510534(CKB)38168937800041(DE-B1597)782931(DE-B1597)9781531510534(OCoLC)1512943651(MdBmJHUP)musev2_131021(ODN)ODN0012519655(EXLCZ)993816893780004120250423h20252025 fg engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Small Worlds of Childhood Philosophy, Poetics, and the Queer Temporalities of Early Life /Lauren Shizuko Stone1ST ED.LaVergne Fordham University Press2025New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2025]20251 online resource (224 p.)Title from eBook information screen..1-5315-1050-7 1-5315-1051-5 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Adalbert Stifter’s Topographical Worlds of Childhood -- 2 Rainer Maria Rilke’s Lifeworlds of Childhood -- 3 Walter Benjamin’s Small Worlds of Childhood -- Coda -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works Cited -- IndexThe Small Worlds of Childhood argues that prose representations of bourgeois childhood contain surprising opportunities to reflect on the temporality of experience. In their narratives of children at home in their everyday worlds, Adalbert Stifter, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Walter Benjamin are not only able to shed a unique light on key issues in the history of philosophy. They also offer a queer critique of the normative expectation that the literature of childhood is oriented toward the future. Stone shows that when writers engage in philosophical storytelling, showing children tarrying in "idian experience, they dislodge childhood from its nostalgic value to grown-ups and the heteronormative demand to grow up. Such stories of children as philosophical subjects thus take on their own lingering, backwards, or all together strange sense of time. Stone demonstrates the necessity of recognizing how texts on childhood—before and beyond Freud—engage literary language in the service of a variety of philosophical attitudes, reminding us how poetic techniques can tell us something extraordinary about moments of ordinary experience and the manner with which humans, and especially children, cognize the world. By bringing canonical German-language literary and philosophical traditions into conversation with current English-language queer approaches, Stone opens a queer counter-history of German and Austrian realist and modernist literature. This title is available from the publisher on an open-access basis.LITERARY CRITICISM / European / GermanbisacshElectronic books. Adalbert Stifter.Childhood.Queer theory.Rainer Maria Rilke.Sigmund Freud.Walter Benjamin.modernism.phenomenology.realism.LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German.LIT004170SOC047000bisacshStone Lauren Shizukoauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut0TOME: Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystemfndhttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fndDE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910988086903321The Small Worlds of Childhood4375097UNINA