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Literatura dziecięca jako forma myślenia: dotyk
Children’s literature as a form of thinking: Haptic experience

Author(s): Magdalena Kuczaba-Flisak
Subject(s): Cognitive Psychology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie
Keywords: touch; haptic; tactile; haptic early concept books; toy books; haptic picture book;

Summary/Abstract: The article aims to expand the field of poetics with haptic experiences during contact with a literary text (concerning children’s literature). The article developed the main concepts in relation to the category of somatopoetics based on embodied cognition. The article draws attention to the material turn in children’s literature research and the departure from treating it as a social construct, assigning the primary role to affects and the imagination. The article’s main thesis claims that children’s literature is a form of thinking through haptic experiences.

  • Issue Year: 10/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 304-321
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish