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This book is a series of readings of phenomenological texts and novels for children that carves out an interdisciplinary space that allows phenomenology to offer provocative literary analyses.
List of contents
Introduction
Chapter One: Charlotte's Web, Temporality, and the Transitions of Growth
Chapter Two: Reading Russell Hoban's The Mouse and His Child as a Phenomenology of Emotion and Community
Chapter Three: A Phenomenology of Sexuality and Movement in To Kill a Mockingbird
Chapter Four: A Phenomenology of Religious Experience in A Wrinkle In Time
Chapter Five: Towards a Phenomenology of Education in Merci Suarez Changes Gears
Further Reading
Works Cited
About the Author
About the author
Peter Costello is an author, critic, and editor. He was born and educated in Dublin, but is a graduate of the University of Michigan in the USA. He is the author of many books in the connected fields of history and biography. His recent account of the creator of Sherlock Holmes as real-life sleuth, Conan Doyle Detective, has achieved international success. He is currently based in Ireland, where he is the Literary Editor of a weekly national newspaper.
Summary
This book is a series of readings of phenomenological texts and novels for children that carves out an interdisciplinary space that allows phenomenology to offer provocative literary analyses.
