The Small Worlds of Childhood : Philosophy, Poetics, and the Queer Temporalities of Early Life / / Lauren Shizuko Stone

• Autore: Stone Lauren Shizuko
• Pubblicazione: LaVergne, : Fordham University Press, 2025; New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2025]; 2025
• Edizione: 1ST ED.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Soggetto topico: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Soggetto non controllato: Adalbert Stifter; Childhood; Queer theory; Rainer Maria Rilke; Sigmund Freud; Walter Benjamin; modernism; phenomenology; realism
• Classificazione: LIT004170SOC047000
• Note generali: Title from eBook information screen..
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Small Worlds of Childhood
• ISBN: 1-5315-1053-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996659463103316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno