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Why do adults write about the child and why do they choose to depict children? This book looks at various examples from literature, art and film to analyze aspects of adults' outlook on the child, and what it tells us about the adult. It pays special attention to the eye motif, as well as looki...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Georgieva, Margarita (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
Subjects:
Children in literature.
Children and adults.
Enfants et adultes.
Painting & paintings.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
Film theory & criticism.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Children and adults
Children in literature
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter I
  • Introduction
  • Clairvoyant Children
  • The Blind Child
  • Conclusions
  • Chapter II
  • Introduction
  • From Reality to a World Beyond
  • Children in Distress
  • Education, Spirituality, and Children as Metaphors
  • The Female Child
  • Conclusions
  • Chapter III
  • Introduction
  • Gardens and Growing
  • Gardens, Children and Terror
  • Death Dialogues
  • Plants and Gardens in Harry Potter
  • Conclusions
  • Chapter IV
  • Introduction
  • Cities of Lost Children
  • The Warden of the Dead
  • The GuideConclusions
  • Chapter V
  • The Eye and the Narrative
  • Fear and the Eye
  • Mirroring
  • Conclusions
  • Chapter VI
  • Bibliography

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