Deleuze in Children's Literature (Plateaus - New Directions in Deleuze Studies)

Jane Newland explores how Deleuzian concepts can enhance and invigorate our readings of this literature, whose implied readership masks much paradox. She focuses on children's texts by some of the authors who fascinate Deleuze, including Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Lewis Carroll, Andre Dhotel, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio and Michel Tournier, as well as Deleuze's own children's book, L'oiseau philosophie (The Philosophy Bird). The authors are explored across chapters on central Deleuzian concepts: pure repetition, becoming, cartographies, stuttering and nonsense. Combines contemporary scholarship on children's literature with Deleuzian concepts to reinvigorate readings of children's literatureReads children's literature from a Deleuzian perspectiveLooks in depth at Deleuze's own children's book with Jacqueline Duhême, L'oiseau philosophie (The Bird Philosophy)Includes chapters on central Deleuzian concepts: pure repetition, becoming, cartographies, stuttering and nonsenseJane Newland explores how Deleuzian concepts can enhance and invigorate our readings of children's literature, whose implied readership masks much paradox. She focuses on children's texts by some of the authors who fascinate Deleuze, including Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Lewis Carroll, André Dhôtel, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio and Michel Tournier. These authors recur across Deleuze's work and shaped his literary writings DELEUZE IN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE Copyright Contents Acknowledgements For Mum and Dad, with love always List of Abbreviations 1 Introduction: The Paradoxes of Children’s Literature; or Making Sense of Children’s Literature 2 Pure Repetition and Aiôn 3 Becoming-animal, Becoming-molecular, Becoming-imperceptible 4 Lines, Maps and Islands 5 Stuttering, Nonsense and Zeroth Voice 6 Painting the Imperceptible: Deleuze in Picture-book Form 7 Conclusion: Children’s Literature on a Witch’s Broom References Index Jane Newland focuses on children's texts by some of the authors who fascinate Deleuze, including Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Lewis Carroll, André Dhôtel, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio and Michel Tournier. They are explored across chapters on central Deleuzian concepts: pure repetition, becoming, cartographies, stuttering and nonsense