“Saving the world before bedtime”: The Puer Aeternus as a New Paradigm for Selfhood

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1 juin 2017

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Presses universitaires François-Rabelais

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littérature enfance childhood literature LIT000000 Literature (General) DS

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Bed time Getting ready for bed Children's bedtime World literature Western literature (Western countries) Belles-lettres

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Karen Coats, « “Saving the world before bedtime”: The Puer Aeternus as a New Paradigm for Selfhood », Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, ID : 10.4000/books.pufr.4942

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“Saving the World before Bedtime”: The Puer Aeternus as a New Paradigm for SelfhoodIn this article, I argue that the puer aeternus (eternal child), which was once considered an abnormal pathology, is now a privileged and effective model for fashioning a self in contemporary culture. I present the social and cultural conditions for this change, and examine contemporary children’s films that explore our cultural ambivalence to this prevalent motif.

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