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Poetics and Ethics of Anthropomorphism: Children, Animals, and Poetry

Poetics and Ethics of Anthropomorphism: Children, Animals, and Poetry

Kelen, Christopher
Chengcheng, Jo

Hardcover

Series: Children's Literature and Culture

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 1032113111
ISBN13: 9781032113111
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 25 2021
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Poetics and Ethics of Anthropomorphism: Children, Animals, and Poetry investigates a kind of poetry written mainly by adults for children. Many genres, including the picture book, are considered in asking for what purposes 'animal poetry' is composed and what function it serves. Critically contextualising anthropomorphism in traditional and contemporary poetic and theoretical discourses, these pages explore the representation of animals through anthropomorphism, anthropocentrism, and through affective responses to other-than-human others. Zoomorphism - the routine flipside of anthropomorphism - is crucially involved in the critical unmasking of the taken-for-granted textual strategies dealt with here. With a focus on the ethics entailed in poetic relations between children and animals, and between humans and nonhumans, this book asks important questions about the Anthropocene future and the role in it of literature intended for children. Poetics and Ethics of Anthropomorphism: Children, Animals, and Poetry is a vital resource for students and for scholars in children's literature.

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