A Jug Full of Stars: The Poetry of Childhood in the 20th and 21st Centuries

A Jug Full of Stars: The Poetry of Childhood in the 20th and 21st Centuries

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Main Author: Dudas, Stephen P.
Language:English
Published: Miami University / OhioLINK 2021
Subjects:
Literature
poetry
childhood
Online Access:http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami161678986029086
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spelling ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-miami1616789860290862021-08-03T07:16:59Z A Jug Full of Stars: The Poetry of Childhood in the 20th and 21st Centuries Dudas, Stephen P. Literature poetry childhood This dissertation defines and explores "the poetry of childhood" a category which collects both poems about children and childhood and poems written for child audiences, in order to describe the twentieth and twenty-first centuries' preoccupation with the unstable and evolving definitions of the child evident in modern and contemporary cultural contexts. Following Roni Natov's Poetics of Childhood, in which the literature of childhood is cast as a force of cultural and historical reflection and representation, I argue that poetry about childhood and poetry written for children articulate the child as a unique subject (as any demographic is unique), but not as a subject other than or lesser than human. By bringing together seemingly disparate works of poetry under a shared critical lens, this dissertation illustrates poetry's capacity to advocate for the child subject as a perceptive, intelligent, and politically relevant subject. "The poetry of childhood" invites the adult reader (and writer) to experience a productive tension between a nostalgic "return" to childhood perspectives and to ideas of innocence, and the cognizance of the child's role in the social and political world. Through close readings of the texts-the poetry of Patrick Galvin and Elizabeth Jennings, the young adult verse novel of immigrant and refugee experience, and anthologies of poetry for children-and contexts in which the child reader comes into contact with poetry, I demonstrate the capacity of the poetry of childhood to reflect and influence ideas of the child in the twentieth century and after. 2021-04-02 English text Miami University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami161678986029086 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami161678986029086 restricted--full text unavailable until 2026-03-29 This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws.
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childhood
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