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Troping the timeless: Ontological desires and the representation of childhood in coming-of-age narratives.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Troping the timeless: Ontological desires and the representation of childhood in coming-of-age narratives./
Author:	Bell, Katherine.
Description:	201 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-12, Section: A, page: 4605.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International70-12A.
Subject:	Education, Language and Literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NR54009
ISBN:	9780494540091

Troping the timeless: Ontological desires and the representation of childhood in coming-of-age narratives.
Bell, Katherine.

Troping the timeless: Ontological desires and the representation of childhood in coming-of-age narratives. - 201 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-12, Section: A, page: 4605.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University (Canada), 2009.

In this dissertation, I offer a narratological understanding of the bildungsroman which considers the relationship between the genre's structural features and Western conceptualizations of child development. I question how the narrative strategies and structural techniques we employ to define childhood are shaped by our ontological desires over 'origins' and 'beginnings', and how the proliferation of such representations strengthens our desire further still. In chapter one, I explore the structural features of the bildungsroman from its Goethean beginnings until its Modern permutations. In chapter two I draw on psychoanalysis to think through the notion of readerly desire and of the reader's affective investment in the structural features of the genre. In my third chapter, I turn to Canadian coming-of-age narratives to consider how concerns over origins have been elaborated along national lines, and how the temporal-spatial structure of childhood has been affected by mythologies of Canadian landscape and identity. In Chapter four, I turn to The Lives of Girls and Women, Alice Munro's coming-of-age story about a young, aspiring female writer who both (a) questions the ethics of storytelling and the way people structure their narratives of life experience; and (b) reminds us of the ways in which children are complex human beings who are in the process of constructing their own histories and grappling with their own desires. This is a text-based inquiry into how we 'read' childhood and child development and it has a broad reach, which intersects narrative ethics, psychoanalytical theory, and post-enlightenment theories of 'progress' that inform our understanding of development with a literary analysis of select European and Canadian coming-of-age literature ( Wilhelm Meister, The Mill on the Floss, Anne of Green Gables, The Lives of Girls and Women).

ISBN: 9780494540091Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018115
Education, Language and Literature.

Troping the timeless: Ontological desires and the representation of childhood in coming-of-age narratives.
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