EAN: 9781349844227

THE LOST CHILD IN LITERATURE AND CULTURE - MARK...

This book is an extensive study of the figure of the lost child in English-speaking and
European literature and culture. It argues that the lost child figure is of profound importance
for our society  a symptom as well as a cause of deep trauma. This trauma  or void  is a
fundamental disruption of the structures that define us: self  history  and even language. This
puts the figure of the child in context with previous research that the modern conception of 'a
child' was formed alongside modern conceptions of memory. The book analyses the representation
of the lost child  through fairy tales  historical oppression and in recent novels and films.
The book then studies the connection of the lost child figure with the uncanny and its
centrality to language. The book considers the lost child figure as an archetype on a
metaphysical and philosophical level as well as cultural.

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