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The Lost Child in Literature and Culture - Mark Froud

The Lost Child in Literature and Culture

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Buch | Softcover
198 Seiten
2019 | 1st ed. 2017
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-84422-7 (ISBN)
CHF 41,90 inkl. MwSt
This book is an extensive study of the figure of the lost child in English-speaking and European literature and culture. It argues that the lost child figure is of profound importance for our society, a symptom as well as a cause of deep trauma. This trauma, or void, is a fundamental disruption of the structures that define us: self, history, and even language.This puts the figure of the child in context with previous research that the modern conception of ‘a child’ was formed alongside modern conceptions of memory. The book analyses the representation of the lost child, through fairy tales, historical oppression and in recent novels and films. The book then studies the connection of the lost child figure with the uncanny and its centrality to language. The book considers the lost child figure as an archetype on a metaphysical and philosophical level as well as cultural.

Mark Froud is an Independent Scholar. His Doctorate was through University of the West of England, UK and his Masters of Research at Bath Spa University, UK. His publications include essays in two international collections The Tapestry of the Creative Word in Anglophone Literatures and Another life = Une autre vie.

1. Introduction - The Figure of the Child.- 2. The Child in the Story.- 3. The Child Lost in History.- 4. The Child Lost in Our Time.- 5. The Uncanny Child, a Ghostly Return.- 6. The Hole in Language.- 7. Conclusion.

“The Lost Child in Literature and Culture is a well-researched book which takes its readers on a journey across disciplines, countries and eras in order to remind us of real-life abducted, victimised, murdered, stolen and lost children and to explore how those cases connect to the imaginary and symbolic. The study is as much about the lost child within us as it is about what the symbol tells us about the world we live in.” (Nataša Kampmark, Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia JEASA, Vol. 8 (2), 2017)

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo IX, 198 p.
Verlagsort Basingstoke
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Film / TV
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
Schlagworte child in society • lost child in folk tales • Lost child in Literature • modern concept of the child • Uncanny child
ISBN-10 1-349-84422-5 / 1349844225
ISBN-13 978-1-349-84422-7 / 9781349844227
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