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Upon the "discovery of childhood" (Ariès), bourgeois culture and with it modern literature mark out an arcane realm that, while scarcely accessible for adults, acts as a space for projections of the most contradictory kind and diverse ideological purposes. If from the eighteenth century onwards the child increasingly came into focus as a mysterious creature, then it now seems a strange being, constantly unsettling and alienating, although exposed to ongoing territorialization. This is possible because the space of 'childhood' is essentially blank and indefinite. Modernity discovers it as a zone of "boundless determinability" (Schiller).