The burden of consciousness : object animism in children's literature
Animals, plants and objects are often anthropomorphized to delightful effect in children’s literature while adult depictions of the inanimate coming alive almost always occur in the genres of science fiction and horror and have had a much less positive spin. This essay argues that these negative evo...
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2009
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| author | Yam, Hui Qing |
| author2 | Walter Philip Wadiak |
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| description | Animals, plants and objects are often anthropomorphized to delightful effect in children’s literature while adult depictions of the inanimate coming alive almost always occur in the genres of science fiction and horror and have had a much less positive spin. This essay argues that these negative evocations do indeed spill over into children’s texts, manifesting in the common motifs that appear in stories involving object animism, and that enlivened objects are furthermore, representations of Julia Kristeva’s concept of abjection. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/152202019-12-10T12:38:07Z The burden of consciousness : object animism in children's literature Yam, Hui Qing Walter Philip Wadiak School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English Animals, plants and objects are often anthropomorphized to delightful effect in children’s literature while adult depictions of the inanimate coming alive almost always occur in the genres of science fiction and horror and have had a much less positive spin. This essay argues that these negative evocations do indeed spill over into children’s texts, manifesting in the common motifs that appear in stories involving object animism, and that enlivened objects are furthermore, representations of Julia Kristeva’s concept of abjection. Bachelor of Arts 2009-04-13T07:02:16Z 2009-04-13T07:02:16Z 2009 2009 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/15220 en Nanyang Technological University 33 p. application/pdf |
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| title | The burden of consciousness : object animism in children's literature |
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| title_short | The burden of consciousness : object animism in children's literature |
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