Twice-Told Children's Tales

The Influence of Childhood Reading on Writers for Adults
Herausgeber: Greenway, Betty

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 402g
• ISBN-13: 9780415867153
• ISBN-10: 0415867150
• Artikelnr.: 37316981

Autorenporträt

Betty Greenway is Professor of English at Youngstown State University in Ohio. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in children's literature. She is author of A Stranger Shore: A Critical Introduction to the Work of Mollie Hunter.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction "Points of intersection ..."
the-influence-of-childhood-reading The Influence of Childhood Reading, Betty Greenway
Part 1 "To drift in the currents of my unconscious ..."
Chapter 1 A Child's-Eye Reading of Mark Twain, Madison Smartt Bell
Part 2 The place was full of books ..."
Chapter 2 Borges and Georgie, Kimberly A. Nance
Chapter 3 Lonely Impulse of Delight, Dana Gioia
Chapter 4 All the Stuff, Antonya Nelson
Chapter 5 Taking Flight, Ira Sadoff
Chapter 6 Bad Habits, Lee K. Abbott
Part 3 "Wake me up in Wonderland and Whoville and Oz ..."
Chapter 7 A Writer on the Yellow Brick Road, Justyna Deszcz-Try Hubczak
Chapter 8 The Pudding, the Witch, and the Titan, Sabina Murray
Chapter 9 Fantastic Fellow-Travelers, X. J. Kennedy
Part 4 "The essential eternal stories ..."
Chapter 10 "Grains of Truth in the Wildest Fable", Christine Butterworth-Mcdermott
Chapter 11 Pictures First, Barry Unsworth
Chapter 12 Essential and Eternal, Penelope Lively
Chapter 13 Silver Chief, John Mcphee
Part 5 "Whose echoes seem ineradicable ..."
Chapter 14 Higgledy Piggledy, Gobbledygoo, Luanne Castle
Chapter 15 Corrupting Children, W. D. Snodgrass
Chapter 16 Cuentos, Rudolfo Anaya
Chapter 17 Ineradicable Echoes, Charles Wright
Part 6 "The luminous symbol of innocence ..."
Chapter 18 "Wonders Wild and New", Carolyn Sigler
Chapter 19 Dreamhouse Revisited, Alison Habens
Part 7 "An impossible idealism ..."
Chapter 20 Mapping the Soupsweet Land, Hope Howell Hodgkins
Chapter 21 Sheba's Breasts, D.M. Thomas
Chapter 22 E. Nesbit and Primrose Gumming, Maxine Kumin
Part 8 "Recuperated loss ..."
Chapter 23 Punch Reads Aunt Judy, Judith A. Plotz
Chapter 24 Three Men in a Boat, Andrei Codrescu
Chapter 25 Cowboys and Poets, C.K. Williams
Part 9 "I could become a writer too ..."
Chapter 26 Transmutations of Folktale and School Story in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Jacqueline L. Gmuca
Chapter 27 New Year's Day, Year of the Horse, Maxine Hong Kingston
Part 10 "To wash up on another island of truth ..."
Chapter 28 From the Salty Unconscious of the Sea, Sandra Alcosser