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Davide Giuriato: Infinitely Determinable

Davide Giuriato

Infinitely Determinable
Children and Childhood in Modern Literature

Übersetzt von Paul Bowman

Broschur, 232 Seiten

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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.”

Inhalt
  • 9–19

    Introduction

  • 21–37

    Idylls of Childhood (Hoffmann—Stifter)

  • 39–47

    Christmas

  • 49–67

    Rescuing Children (Stifter)

  • 69–100

    On the Threshold of Writing (Rilke—Walser—Benjamin)

  • 69–100

    On the Threshold of Writing (Rilke—Walser—Benjamin)

  • 101–111

    Becoming-Child (Walser)

  • 115–133

    Little Hans (Freud—Kafka)

  • 137–153

    This Briefest Childhood (Kafka)

  • 155–176

    An Angel’s Grace, a Devil’s Grin

  • 177–211

    Notes

  • 213–214

    Acknowledgments

  • 215–232

    Bibliography

  • Moderne
  • Denkt Kunst
  • Literaturwissenschaft
  • Kindheit
  • Literaturgeschichte

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Davide Giuriato

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).
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