The troubling wilderness : the psychological uses of the sublime and frontier in illustrated children’s books

The troubling wilderness : the psychological uses of the sublime and frontier in illustrated children’s books

The association between children and the natural world has been set as an antithesis towards human society, particularly the domestication that it espouses. Nature and the child are mutually represented, in a word, by wildness. This thesis is interested in investigating the relationship between chil...

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Main Author: Lo, Yi Min
Other Authors: Sim Wai Chew
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/67019
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-670192021-02-17T08:24:25Z The troubling wilderness : the psychological uses of the sublime and frontier in illustrated children’s books Lo, Yi Min Sim Wai Chew School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Humanities The association between children and the natural world has been set as an antithesis towards human society, particularly the domestication that it espouses. Nature and the child are mutually represented, in a word, by wildness. This thesis is interested in investigating the relationship between children and wildness – specifically the wilderness. It will examine literature closely related to children – the award-winning picture book Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak and Antoine Saint-Exupéry’s well-known illustrated novella The Little Prince as ecological texts. It argues that wilderness in these stories embody what William Cronon highlights as the two branches of definition, the sublime and the frontier to be conquered. Bachelor of Arts 2016-05-10T08:33:56Z 2016-05-10T08:33:56Z 2016 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/67019 en 33 p. application/pdf
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The troubling wilderness : the psychological uses of the sublime and frontier in illustrated children’s books
description The association between children and the natural world has been set as an antithesis towards human society, particularly the domestication that it espouses. Nature and the child are mutually represented, in a word, by wildness. This thesis is interested in investigating the relationship between children and wildness – specifically the wilderness. It will examine literature closely related to children – the award-winning picture book Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak and Antoine Saint-Exupéry’s well-known illustrated novella The Little Prince as ecological texts. It argues that wilderness in these stories embody what William Cronon highlights as the two branches of definition, the sublime and the frontier to be conquered.
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title The troubling wilderness : the psychological uses of the sublime and frontier in illustrated children’s books
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