03075cam a2200409 4500 2718316609 TxAuBib 20260328120000.0 ||||||s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781531510527 1531510523 B0DDR9VPLY Amazon c97d9ffb-bc00-45f1-aedf-567ce7ab5ff4 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 12519655 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Stone, Lauren Shizuko. The Small Worlds of Childhood [Libby eBook] : Philosophy, Poetics, and the Queer Temporalities of Early Life. Fordham University Press, 2025. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Rainer Maria Rilke. adalbert stifter. Walter Benjamin. Sigmund Freud. Phenomenology. queer theory. childhood. Modernism. realism. HTML:<p><i>The Small Worlds of Childhood</i> 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.<br /> Stone shows that when writers engage in philosophical storytelling, showing children tarrying in quotidian 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 <i>literary</i> language in the service of a variety of <i>philosophical</i> 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.<br /> 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.<br /> <i>This title is available from the publisher on an open-access basis.</i></p>. Literary Criticism. Nonfiction. Sociology. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-03-27 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c97d9ffb-bc00-45f1-aedf-567ce7ab5ff4&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c97d9ffb-bc00-45f1-aedf-567ce7ab5ff4&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)