Metaphysics of Children's Literature: Climbing Fuzzy Mountains (Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature)
Metaphysics of Children's Literature: Climbing Fuzzy Mountains (Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature) by Lisa Sainsbury
2021 | ISBN: 1350093688, 1350204730 | English | 264 pages | PDF | 31 MB
2021 | ISBN: 1350093688, 1350204730 | English | 264 pages | PDF | 31 MB
Metaphysics of Children's Literature is the first sustained study of ways in which children's literature confronts metaphysical questions about reality and the nature of what there is in the world. In its exploration of something and nothing, this book identifies a number of metaphysical structures in texts for young people-such as the ontological exchange or nowhere in extremis-demonstrating that their entanglement with the workings of reality is unique to the conditions of children's literature. Drawing on contemporary children's literature discourse and metaphysicians from Heidegger and Levinas, to Bachelard, Sartre and Haraway, Lisa Sainsbury reveals the metaphysical groundwork of children's literature.