Poetics and Ethics of Anthropomorphism

Children, Animals, and Poetry

Christopher Kelen, Jo Chengcheng

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Routledge
31 May 2023

Poetry; Literary studies: general; Children's literature studies: general

Series: Children's Literature and Culture

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.

By: Christopher Kelen, Jo Chengcheng
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 400g
ISBN: 9781032113128
ISBN 10: 103211312X
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 31 May 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Christopher (Kit) Kelen is a poet and painter, resident in the Myall Lakes of NSW. Published widely since the 1970s, he has a dozen full length collections in English as well as translated books of poetry in Chinese, Portuguese, French, Italian, Spanish, Indonesian, Swedish, Norwegian, and Filipino. A Greek bi-lingual volume is in preparation. His latest book of poetry in English is Poor Man's Coat - Hardanger Poems, published by UWAP in 2018. Kit's Book of Mother is forthcoming from Puncher & Wattmann in 2021. Emeritus Professor at the University of Macau, where he taught for many years, Kit Kelen is also a Conjoint Professor at the University of Newcastle. With Björn Sundmark, Kelen has edited two large-scale Routledge anthologies in the Children’s Literature area: The Nation in Children’s Literature (2013) and Child Autonomy and Child Governance in Children's Literature: Where Children Rule? (2017). In 2017, Kelen was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Malmö, in Sweden. Chengcheng You is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Macau. Her articles appeared in Children’s Literature in Education, Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal, The Lion and the Unicorn, International Research in Children’s Literature, and History of Education and Children’s Literature. Her publications also include book chapters published in the anthologies: Child Governance and Autonomy in Children’s Literature (2017), Debatable Lands: New Directions in Children’s Gothic (2017), and Posthumanism in Fantastic Fiction (2018). Currently her research interests include critical approaches to children’s literature, interdisciplinary studies in animals and literature, adaptation of Chinese classics, and the translation of Children’s Literature.