Twice-told children's tales
Subtitle: the influence of childhood reading on writers for adults
By: edited by Betty Greenway.
Contributors: Greenway, Betty.
Series: Children's literature and culture ;; 35
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Authors, American -- 20th century -- Books and reading.; Authors -- 20th century -- Books and reading.; Children's literature -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A child's-eye reading of Mark Twain / Madison Smartt Bell; title: Borges and Georgie : childhood reading, adult writing, and the shape of the Latin American fantastic / Kimberly A. Nance; title: A lonely impulse of delight : one reader's childhood / Dana Gioia; title: All the stuff / Antonya Nelson; title: Taking flight : a retrospect on booking passage / Ira Sadoff; title: Bad habits / Lee K. Abbott; title: A writer on the yellow brick road : Salman Rushdie's Ozian inspirations / Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak; title: The pudding, the witch, and the titan / Sabina Murray; title: Fantastic fellow-travelers / X.J. Kennedy; title: Grains of truth in the wildest fable : "Beauty and the beast" retold as Jane Eyre / Christine Butterworth-McDermott; title: Pictures first / Barry Unsworth; title: Essential and eternal / Penelope Lively; title: Silver chief / John McPhee; title: Higgledy piggledy, gobbledygoo : the rotted residue of nursery rhyme in Sylvia Plath's poetry / Luanne Castle; title: Corrupting children / W.D. Snodgrass; title: Cuentos / Rudolfo Anaya; title: Ineradicable echoes / Charles Wright; title: Wonders wild and new : Lewis Carroll's Alice books and postmodern women writers / Carolyn Sigler; title: Dreamhouse revisited / Alison Habens; title: Mapping the soupsweet land : King Solomon's Mines in Graham Greene's The heart of the matter / Hope Howell Hodgkins; title: Sheba's breasts / D.M. Thomas; title: E. Nesbit and Primrose Cumming / Maxine Kumin; title: Punch reads Aunt Judy : Kipling, Ewing, and the uses of children's literature / Judith A. Plotz; title: Three men in a boat / Andrei Codrescu; title: Cowboys and poets / C.K. Williams; title: Transmutations of folktale and school story in A portrait of the artist as a young man / Jacqueline L. Gmuca; title: Dear Jade Snow / Maxine Hong Kingston; title: From the salty unconscious of the sea / Sandra Alcosser.