"Following the 'material turn' in the humanities, this book brings perspectives from science and ecology into dialogue with children's fiction written and published in the UK and the USA in the twenty-first century. It develops the concept of 'entanglement', which origi...

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Main Author:	Germaine, Chloé (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York Bloomsbury Academic 2023
Series:	Bloomsbury perspectives on children's literature Bloomsbury collections
Subjects:	Gothic novel Kinderliteratur Fantastische Literatur Jugendliteratur Englisch Children's stories, English / History and criticism Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English / History and criticism Fantasy fiction, English / History and criticism
Online Access:	BSB01 Volltext
Summary:	"Following the 'material turn' in the humanities, this book brings perspectives from science and ecology into dialogue with children's fiction written and published in the UK and the USA in the twenty-first century. It develops the concept of 'entanglement', which originated in twentieth-century quantum physics but has been applied to cultural critique, through a reading of Fantastika literature. It surveys a wide-raging scope of literary texts, covering the gothic, fantasy and other forms of speculative fiction, to argue that Fantastika positions entanglemet as an ethical imperative that transforms our imaginative relationship with materiality. In doing so, it synthesizes perspectives from a similarly diverse range of areas, including ecology, physics, anthropology, biology and literary studies to examine the storied matter of children's Fantastika as ground from which we might to begin to imagine an as-yet-unrealised future that addresses the problems of our present."
Item Description:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:	1 Online-Ressource (256 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781350167049 9781350167025 9781350167032
DOI:	10.5040/9781350167049