Proceedings of the 2nd Social Sciences, Humanities and Education Conference: Establishing Identities through Language, Culture, and Education (SOSHEC 2018)

Daring as A Natural Value in "Where the Sidewalk Ends" and "A Light in the Attic" by Shel Silverstein

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Diana Budi Darma, Mamik Tri Wedawati
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Diana Budi Darma
Available Online July 2018.
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10.2991/soshec-18.2018.14How to use a DOI?
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antropocentrism; logical; illogical.
Abstract

Children literature arrived to the trend where humans exist as an actor who is superior among others. Shel Silversteins’ Collected Poems in A Light in the Attic (1981) and Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974) are two representations of different perspective of children literature that consist of provocative meanings; more influential comparing to traditional one. The research will focus on how the interpretion of children’s texts representing human’s perspectives and how these perspectives reveal ideological symbols in story books. Answering these phenomena, descriptive qualitative research was done to 262 titles of poems by categorizing, collecting information, and documenting. Part of environmental values, the concept of antropocentrism is being used to get clear description and understanding to the problems. The themes of daring, fantasy, death, and creation are humans' perspectives which are employed to interpret the text of children literature. Two qualities of maanhood as the representation of ideological symbols are logical and illogical facts, since daring and fantasy are logical facts, while death and creation are part of illogical facts

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2nd Social Sciences, Humanities and Education Conference: Establishing Identities through Language, Culture, and Education (SOSHEC 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
July 2018
ISBN
10.2991/soshec-18.2018.14
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/soshec-18.2018.14How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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