Greenway Twice-Told Children's Tales

The Influence of Childhood Reading on Writers for Adults
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-135-46884-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

Reihe: Children's Literature and Culture

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Greenway, Betty

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editor's Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction: "Points of intersection. "
"The Influence of Childhood Reading" Betty Greenway
Part 1: "To drift in the currents of my unconscious. "
1. A Child's-Eye Reading of Mark Twain--Madison Smartt Bell
Part 2: "The place was full of books. "
2. Borges and Georgie: Childhood Reading, Adult Writing, and the Shape of the Latin American Fantastic--Kimberly A. Nance
3. A Lonely Impulse of Delight: One Reader's Childhood--Dana Gioia
4. All the Stuff--Antonya Nelson
5. Taking Flight: A Retrospect on Booking Passage--Ira Sadoff
6. Bad Habits--Lee K. Abbott
Part 3 "Wake me up in Wonderland and Whoville and Oz. "
7. A Writer on the Yellow Brick Road: Salman Rushdie's Ozian
Inspirations--Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak
8. The Pudding, the Witch, and the Titan--Sabina Murray
9. Fantastic Fellow-Travelers--X. J. Kennedy
Part 4 "The essential eternal stories. "
10. "Grains of Truth in the Wildest Fable": "Beauty and the Beast" Retold as Jane
Eyre--Christine Butterworth-McDermott
11. Pictures First--Barry Unsworth
12. Essential and Eternal--Penelope Lively
13. Silver Chief--John McPhee
Part 5 "Whose echoes seem ineradicable. "
14. Higgledy Piggledy, Gobbledygoo: The Rotted Residue of
Nursery Rhyme in Sylvia Plath's Poetry--Luanne Castle
15. Corrupting Children--W. D. Snodgrass
16. Cuentos--Rudolfo Anaya
17. Ineradicable Echoes--Charles Wright
Part 6 "The luminous symbol of innocence. "
18. "Wonders Wild and New": Lewis Carroll's Alice Books and Postmodern
Women Writers--Carolyn Sigler
19. Dreamhouse Revisited - Alison Habens
Part 7 "An impossible idealism. "
20. Mapping the Soupsweet Land: King Solomon's Mines in Graham Greene's
The Heart of the Matter--Hope Howell Hodgkins
21. Sheba's Breasts--D. M. Thomas
22. E. Nesbit and Primrose Cumming--Maxine Kumin
Part 8 "Recuperated loss. "
23. Punch Reads Aunt Judy: Kipling, Ewing, and the Uses of Children's
Literature--Judith A. Plotz
24. Three Men in a Boat--Andrei Codrescu
25. Cowboys and Poets--C. K. Williams
Part 9 "I could become a writer too. "
26. Transmutations of Folktale and School Story in A Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man--Jacqueline L. Gmuca
27. Dear Jade Snow--Maxine Hong Kingston
Part 10 "To wash up on another island of truth. "
28. From the Salty Unconscious of the Sea--Sandra Alcosser
Contributors' Notes
Index