Twice-told children's tales : the influence of childhood reading on writers for adults / edited by Betty Greenway.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Greenway, Betty.

Series:

Children's literature and culture ; 35.

Children's literature and culture ; 35

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, American--20th century--Books and reading.

Authors, American.

Authors--20th century--Books and reading.

Authors.

Children's literature--History and criticism.

Children's literature.

Books and reading.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 247 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2005.

Contents:

A child's-eye reading of Mark Twain / Madison Smartt Bell

Borges and Georgie : childhood reading, adult writing, and the shape of the Latin American fantastic / Kimberly A. Nance

A lonely impulse of delight : one reader's childhood / Dana Gioia

All the stuff / Antonya Nelson

Taking flight : a retrospect on booking passage / Ira Sadoff

Bad habits / Lee K. Abbott

A writer on the yellow brick road : Salman Rushdie's Ozian inspirations / Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak

The pudding, the witch, and the titan / Sabina Murray

Fantastic fellow-travelers / X.J. Kennedy

Grains of truth in the wildest fable : "Beauty and the beast" retold as Jane Eyre / Christine Butterworth-McDermott

Pictures first / Barry Unsworth

Essential and eternal / Penelope Lively

Silver chief / John McPhee

Higgledy piggledy, gobbledygoo : the rotted residue of nursery rhyme in Sylvia Plath's poetry / Luanne Castle

Corrupting children / W.D. Snodgrass

Cuentos / Rudolfo Anaya

Ineradicable echoes / Charles Wright

Wonders wild and new : Lewis Carroll's Alice books and postmodern women writers / Carolyn Sigler

Dreamhouse revisited / Alison Habens

Mapping the soupsweet land : King Solomon's Mines in Graham Greene's The heart of the matter / Hope Howell Hodgkins

Sheba's breasts / D.M. Thomas

E. Nesbit and Primrose Cumming / Maxine Kumin

Punch reads Aunt Judy : Kipling, Ewing, and the uses of children's literature / Judith A. Plotz

Three men in a boat / Andrei Codrescu

Cowboys and poets / C.K. Williams

Transmutations of folktale and school story in A portrait of the artist as a young man / Jacqueline L. Gmuca

Dear Jade Snow / Maxine Hong Kingston

From the salty unconscious of the sea / Sandra Alcosser.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415972051

OCLC:

58535559