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Journal articles on the topic "Childhood innocence"

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McGinn, Laura, Nicole Stone, Roger Ingham, and Andrew Bengry-Howell. "Parental interpretations of “childhood innocence”." Health Education 116, no. 6 (October 3, 2016): 580–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/he-10-2015-0029.

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Purpose Despite general recognition of the benefits of talking openly about sexuality with children, parents encounter and/or create barriers to such communication. One of the key barriers is a desire to protect childhood innocence. The purpose of this paper is to explore parental interpretations of childhood innocence and the influence this has on their reported practices relating to sexuality-relevant communication with young children. Design/methodology/approach In all, 110 UK parents and carers of children aged between four and seven years were involved in focus group discussions. The discussions were transcribed and thematic network analysis was subsequently applied to the data. Following the reading and re-reading of the transcripts for meaning, context and content, individual comments and statements were identified within the data set and grouped to generate themes. Findings Childhood innocence was commonly equated with non-sexuality in children and sexual ignorance. Parents displayed ambiguity around the conceptualisation of non-innocence in children. Parents desire to prolong the state of childhood innocence led them to withhold certain sexual knowledge from their children; however, the majority also desired an open relationship whereby their child could approach them for information. Originality/value UK parents have a strong desire to maintain the social construction of their children as inherently innocent. This discourse is affecting the way in which they communicate about sexually relevant information with their children.
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Baackmann, Susanne. "Undoing the Myth of Childhood Innocence in Gisela Elsner’s Fliegeralarm." German Politics and Society 39, no. 1 (March 1, 2021): 37–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/gps.2021.390103.

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This article examines Gisela Elsner’s 1989 novel Fliegeralarm in light of Helmut Kohl’s politics of “normalization” and the Kriegskinder victimology that has recently gained traction. Fliegeralarm presents children as Hitler’s willing executioners and categorically refutes the notion of “liberation” (from fascism) as justification for normalizing German national identity. The text questions the entire edifice upon which West and now united Germany’s official memory culture is built. I argue that Elsner not only contests the concept of “historical innocence” but fundamentally refutes the possibility of an innocent historical subject position. Fliegeralarm provocatively casts remembering and childhood innocence as calculated performances that mirror the generational complicity of those born into a legacy of perpetration. It offers a prescient intervention in post-Wende discourses and rethinks childhood innocence along the lines of historical implication, that is, in dialectical tension with knowledge and denial, marked by the traffic between knowing and not knowing.
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Templeton, Tran Nguyen, and Ranita Cheruvu. "Childhood Innocence for Settler Children: Disrupting Colonialism and Innocence in Early Childhood Curriculum." New Educator 16, no. 2 (March 16, 2020): 131–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1547688x.2020.1734264.

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Kitzinger, Jenny. "Defending Innocence: Ideologies of Childhood." Feminist Review, no. 28 (1988): 77. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1394897.

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Ramjewan, Neil, and Julie C. Garlen. "Growing out of childhood innocence." Curriculum Inquiry 50, no. 4 (August 7, 2020): 281–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03626784.2020.1851521.

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Kitzinger, Jenny. "Defending Innocence: Ideologies of Childhood." Feminist Review 28, no. 1 (January 1988): 77–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/fr.1988.7.

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Seichepine, Marielle. "Childhood and Innocence inWuthering Heights." Brontë Studies 29, no. 3 (November 2004): 209–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/bst.2004.29.3.209.

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Garlen, Julie C. "Interrogating innocence: “Childhood” as exclusionary social practice." Childhood 26, no. 1 (November 22, 2018): 54–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0907568218811484.

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Within the contemporary US context, the construct of childhood innocence is a powerful social myth that structures children’s social relations and culture and informs their rights and status in society. In this article, I interrogate the construct of childhood innocence to examine how it operates as an exclusionary form of social practice. By examining the emotional investments and social tensions that have shaped concepts of childhood, which define who is entitled to innocence and what it means to “belong” with/in childhood, I reveal how the doctrine of innocence has operated to maintain White supremacy. I explore the implications of a construct of childhood that works against the agency and dignity of most children by perpetuating silence about social injustices to illustrate the need for a reconceptualization of childhood that acknowledges and prioritizes the human rights of all children.
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Lucie-Smith, Edward. "Eros and innocence." Index on Censorship 26, no. 2 (March 1997): 139–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030642209702600237.

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Images of childhood in western art reflect society's changing attitudes to children. While the erotic force of past masters is beyond reproach or banishment, the intrusion of the camera provokes outrage and censoriousness
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Duschinsky, Robbie. "Childhood innocence: essence, education, and performativity." Textual Practice 27, no. 5 (January 7, 2013): 763–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2012.751441.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Childhood innocence"

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Starbuck, Nicole Sari. "Backyard Bedsides: An Exploration of the Loss of Childhood Innocence." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/244787.

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Backyard Bedsides is a series of paintings that explore the loss of innocence associated with childhood abuse and premature sexual discovery. The work focuses on the psychological and emotional repercussions of such events on prepubescent behavior and adolescent development. The images reference composite photographs, scientific studies, statistics, testimonials, and personal experience. The paintings also examine how color, composition, and context can be used to express feelings of isolation, confusion, and conflict. In this way, the paintings depict not realistic space, but psychological space. They provide a glimpse into the mind of the abused.
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Caps, Annie. "Fuzzy robots utopian ideals, immortalization of youth, and the innocence of childhood /." Orlando, Fla. : University of Central Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0002543.

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Werrlein, Debra T. "Infant nation childhood innocence and the politics of race in contemporary American fiction /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/1546.

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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2004.
Thesis research directed by: English Language and Literature. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Caps, Elizabeth. "FUZZY ROBOTS: UTOPIAN IDEALS, THE IMMORTALIZATION OF YOUTH, AND THE INNOCENCE OF CHILDHOOD." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2009. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3147.

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Ideals, aesthetics, forms, and concepts have resurfaced in various cultures throughout time. I am interested in the idea of the recurring themes that exist in the collective unconscious. I create monolithic figures that exhibit these archetypal qualities. Heavily influenced by film, animation, video games, and contemporary art, I create figures and paintings that are manifestations of my subconscious. These manifestations personify utopian ideals, the immortalization of youth, and the innocence of childhood.
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Department of Art
Arts and Humanities
Studio Art and the Computer MFA
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Handa, Satoko. "Saving 'the Age of Innocence' Catholicism, Revolution and representations of childhood in France, 1762-1830 /." Thesis, Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2008. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B41508919.

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Karlsson, Fredrik. "The Meeting of Childhood and Colonialism in William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-66163.

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In Songs of Innocence and of Experience William Blake contrasts childhood and adulthood. This essay relates this to another prominent social issue in the collection, colonialism. This essay aims at answering the question of what happens when the child is black rather than white. By providing an analysis of how children in general are portrayed, followed up with a brief discussion of how Blake deals with colonial issues this essay sets the stage for a final concluding discussion about what happens when the two themes of childhood and colonialism meet. The discussion reveals that Blake is using irony to ridicule the contemporary polarized meanings of the words “black” and “white”. By doing this Blake makes the little black boy in “The Little Black Boy” the perfect symbol for criticising the contemporary issues of child abuse and colonialism in one single piece of poetry.
I Songs of Innocence and of Experience visar William Blake på motsättningarna mellan barndom och de vuxnas värld. Denna uppsats kopplar detta tema till kolonialism, en annan framstående social fråga som behandlas i diktsamlingen. Syftet med denna uppsats är att besvara frågan om vad skillnaden blir när det är ett svart barn istället för ett vitt som framställs i dikterna. Genom att först analysera hur barn i allmänhet framställs, följt av en kort diskussion om hur Blake hanterar problemet med kolonialismen leder denna uppsats fram till en avslutande diskussion kring vad som händer när två stora teman som barndom och kolonialism möts. Den avslutande diskussionen framhäver att genom Blakes användande av ironi så gör han den samtida polariseringen av orden ”svart” och ”vit” till åtlöje. Den svarta pojken i ”The Little Black Boy” blir Blakes perfekta symbol för att kritisera de samtida frågorna kring barns utsatthet och kolonialism i en och samma dikt.
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Ji, Renan. "Sexo de anjos: mito, infância e sexualidade na literatura." Niterói, 2017. https://app.uff.br/riuff/handle/1/3180.

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A tese trata de narrativas que primaram por representar figurações extremas da infância, mais especificamente da infância sexualizada ou sedutora. O corpus inclui obras consagradas e conhecidas pelo tratamento polêmico da infância, como Lolita, de Vladimir Nabokov, A tragédia brasileira, de Sérgio Sant'Anna, Elogio da madrasta, de Mario Vargas Llosa, e O caderno rosa de Lori Lamby, de Hilda Hilst; assim como obras menos previsíveis como Teorema, de Pier Paolo Pasolini, e O bom crioulo de Adolfo Caminha. Nesses trabalhos, discuto o diálogo com as imagens tradicionais da infância, e igualmente a subversão polêmica dessas mesmas imagens, introduzindo uma concepção ou imagem sui generis daquele que conhecemos como o infante, ou aquele que se encontra no estágio infantil da sexualidade ou da psique. Vemos que o mito, como categoria supostamente a ser superada por essas narrativas (o mito da inocência infantil), retornará ao texto literário por vias insuspeitas e/ou alternativas, numa espécie de reconfiguração ou reatualização da infância mítica.
The thesis analyses narratives which present us extreme figurations of childhood, more specifically the figure of the sexual or seductive child. The literary corpus includes acclaimed works, known for their controversial treatment of childhood, such as Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov, A tragédia brasileira, by Sérgio Sant'Anna, Elogio da madrasta, by Mario Vargas Llosa, and O caderno rosa de Lori Lamby, by Hilda Hilst. The analysis also considers less predictable works, such as Teorema, by Pier Paolo Pasolini, and O bom crioulo, by Adolfo Caminha. In the mentioned narratives, I will discuss their dialogue with traditional images of childhood, as well as a polemic subversion of those same images. The result would be a sui generis concept or image of the one we know as the infant, or the one who is in the infantile stages of psychosexual development. The myth as an allegedly overcome category in those narratives (the myth of childhood innocence) returns in unsuspected or alternative ways, reconfiguring or readapting the mythic childhood.
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Albritton, Casey D. "The Loss of Innocence in America's Childhood| The Adam Walsh Murder and the Media's Impact on the Culture and Legislation." Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10163265.

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After the kidnapping and murder of his son Adam in 1981, John Walsh dedicated his life to advocating for missing children. He became the forerunner of a movement to change the laws of the country so that no parent or child would have to suffer through the same events his family endured. The media frenzy surrounding the case, as well as John Walsh’s efforts to make child endangerment and missing children a national issue, helped influence and alter the way the public views the issues of child safety, child kidnapping, and the offenders that harm these children. This research analyzed newspaper articles involving the Adam Walsh murder, and examined rhetorical patterns based on ideas of the social construction of reality, folk devils and moral panics. This research revealed five rhetorical themes the media used when discussing the Adam Walsh case: vulnerability of the victim, description of the offender and crime, transformation of John Walsh, America’s lost childhood innocence and the evolution of the criminal justice system. Results showed repeated pattern of descriptive language emphasizing Adam’s age for innocence and vulnerability, a distinct evolution of John Walsh as a moral entrepreneur and an overall loss of innocence and safety felt amongst parents and children.

This research revealed that the legislation developed and passed has been influenced by fear pervasive in society, rather than criminal data. The findings suggests that federal legislation needs to be modified so that there is less invasion into the lives of nonviolent offenders that are less likely to recidivate.

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Northam, Jean Ann. "The uses of innocence : the meanings and uses of images of childhood in the press, taking 2001 as a case study." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.572043.

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This thesis is a case study, presented as a contribution to the theorisation of the visual construction of childhood, in opposition to adulthood. The research involved the semiological analysis of all the images of childhood published in three broadsheet newspapers throughout 200 I, comprising approximately 1400 images. The analyses focussed upon the meanings of the images and the uses to which they were put in the angling, ideological inflection, and narrativisation of the advertisement or press item. The research draws upon literature relating to photographic realism, the construction of meaning in photographs, and the history of visual representations of childhood from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries. It was found that images of childhood played a major part in the development and universalization of the modem construction of childhood as innocent and, in key respects, distinct from adulthood. The findings are developed over three chapters. It was found that the tropes used to construct ideal, innocent childhood could be manipulated to produce narratives of threatened childhood and victimhood, and further manipulated to figure a transgressive childhood in which the adult-child binary has been breached. These variations are further explored in relation to conflict, disaster, and crime, an exploration in which childhood is viewed as a terrain for the mapping of hopeful futures, victimhood, the aetiology of criminality, and threats to cultural survival. In the context of debates about the imminent demise of childhood innocence, the themes of sexuality, consumerism, and knowingness are examined for ways in which they present threats to the adult-child binary. The thesis concludes with further analyses of the representational functions of childhood and their implications for adult and children, with reference to the uses of images of childhood in myth-making, in representing goodness, and in the envisaging of dystopian futures. The merits and shortcomings of the research are reviewed, and areas for further enquiry identified. Some updating is included in view of the passage of time since the collection of images in 2001.
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Lundquist, Jack. "A "Time-Conscious" Christmas Carol." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2013. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3832.

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Shortly after Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol was released in 1843, a tradition of adaptation began which has continued seemingly unabated to the present day. Consequently, the tale has become so widely known that one is arguably as likely to have first encountered the iconic miser Scrooge through any number of audio-visual adaptations as through the original work itself. Significant critical attention has been paid to the nature of Scrooge's drastic change from miser to philanthropist. Many would argue that the change, happening both literally and figuratively overnight, is not representative of a genuine psychological transformation. On Christmas day, 2010, Stephen Moffat, Show-runner of the popular sci-fi series Doctor Who, became the latest adapter of the classic tale, with a Christmas themed episode of the series titled Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol. This paper addresses the Scrooge Problem, or the debated legitimacy of Scrooge's transformation. A study of A Christmas Carol and Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol reveals that Dickens in fact represents a genuine transformation based on one primary concept, time as a cyclical journey. This concept accommodates Dickens's belief in the transformative power of childhood memory and the nature of sympathy. Scrooge's transformation is brought to pass in part through his evolving understanding of the nature of time, a phenomenon which becomes even more apparent in Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol.
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Books on the topic "Childhood innocence"

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Anglund, Joan Walsh. Childhood is a time of innocence. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992.

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Dunham, Katherine. A touch of innocence: Memoirs of childhood. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.

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Songs of innocence: The story of British childhood. London: Atlantic Books, 2012.

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Davies, Kate. When innocence trembles. Sydney, NSW: Angus & Robertson, 1994.

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Visions of innocence: Spiritual and inspirational experiences of childhood. Boston: Shambhala, 1992.

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Hoffman, E. J. Visions of innocence: Spiritual and inspirational experiences of childhood. Boston, MA: Shambhala, 1992.

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No time for innocence. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 2000.

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Jerome, Judson. Flight from innocence: A memoir, 1927-1947. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1990.

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Pictures of innocence: The history and crisis of ideal childhood. New York, N.Y: Thames and Hudson, 1998.

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Diane, Medved, ed. Saving childhood: Protecting our children from the national assault on innocence. New York, NY: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1998.

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Book chapters on the topic "Childhood innocence"

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Bedjaoui, Ahmed. "Childhood and the War, Trauma and Innocence." In Cinema and the Algerian War of Independence, 181–200. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37994-0_9.

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Flacks, Simon. "Drug law reform and the politics of innocence." In Law, Drugs and the Politics of Childhood, 52–82. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2021. | Series: New advances in crime and social harm: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429282140-ch02.

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Phillips, Michelle H. "An Innocence Worse than Evil in The Turn of the Screw." In Representations of Childhood in American Modernism, 65–89. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50807-2_4.

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Davies, Helen. "Innocence, Experience, and Childhood Dramas: Charles Stratton and Lavinia Warren." In Neo-Victorian Freakery, 121–58. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137402561_5.

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Golding, Frank. "Sexual Abuse as the Core Transgression of Childhood Innocence: Unintended Consequences for Care Leavers." In Examining the Past and Shaping the Future, 55–67. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003142799-5.

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Lumby, Catharine. "Presumed Innocent: Picturing Childhood." In The Unacceptable, 68–79. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137014573_4.

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"Childhood Innocence." In Making a Difference, 1–14. University of Namibia Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvh8qzfz.6.

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"Childhood and Innocence." In Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory, 125. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-588-4_100090.

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"Uncovering (post-)war trauma in childhood." In Splintered Innocence, 100–119. Routledge, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315812229-11.

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"Constructions of Innocence." In The Poetics of Childhood, 9–48. Routledge, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315054643-2.

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Conference papers on the topic "Childhood innocence"

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Seshadri, Shreelata Rao, Nilanjan Bhor, and Suraj Parab. "SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF CHILDHOOD MALNUTRITION: THE LOSS OF INNOCENCE." In EPHP 2016, Bangalore, 8–9 July 2016, Third national conference on bringing Evidence into Public Health Policy Equitable India: All for Health and Wellbeing. BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2016-ephpabstracts.10.

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Barnés, Antonio. "The paths of dreams. A rereading of Antonio Machado’s Galleries." In The Figurativeness of the Language of Mystical Experience. Brno: Masaryk University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/cz.muni.p210-9997-2021-9.

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Poetic creation and encounter with God are two concepts that the Spanish poet Antonio Machado relates to dreams and childhood. He thus recovers the dream as a sphere of contact with God, overcoming in a certain way the faith/reason dialectic that modernity takes pleasure in emphasising. The dream is beyond reason, and there comes the divine inspiration which can then be translated into “a few true words”. Poetic language thus acquires a status far superior to that of delight: it is the key that allows us to touch the mystery. The relationship between dream and childhood also allows Machado to explore a lost innocence to which one always aspires to return.
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