Words and worlds : from autobiography to zippers / Alison Lurie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lurie, Alison, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's literature--History and criticism.

Children's literature.

Lurie, Alison.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (140 pages)

Place of Publication:

Harrison, NY : Delphinium Books, [2019]

Summary:

"In this candid and bluntly humorous collection of essays on a wide range of topics, Lurie begins with a portrait of her life at Radcliffe during World War II when the smartest women in the country were treated like second-class citizens, the most scholarly among them expected to work in factories to support the war effort. She moves on to her unheralded, clumsy attempts and near failure to be a writer and, finally having reached a level of recognition, the good fortune of forming close relationships with other writers and editors and great thinkers, including Robert Silver of The New York Review of Books, the poet James Merrill, and the illustrator, Edward Gorey. On this fascinating journey, we are amused by her insightful, often delightfully funny meditations on topics such as "deconstruction" and beloved children's literature series such as The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Harry Potter, and Babar. Words and Worlds is a crowning reminiscence from a much beloved and celebrated writer"-- Publisher's description.

Contents:

Personal history. Nobody asked you to write a novel ; Their Harvard

Words and worlds. What happened in Hamlet ; The language of deconstruction ; My name or yours? ; Witches old and new

People. Archie's gifts ; Barbara Epstein ; Edward Gorey ; James Merrill

Children's books. The good bad boy : Pinocchio ; The royal family of elephants ; Saying no to Narnia ; Harry Potter revisited ; Bad husbands ; Rapunzel : the girl in the tower

Clothes. Breaking the laws of fashion ; Aprons ; The mystery of knitting ; Zippers ; Life after fashion.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5040-5561-6