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1 online resource (274 pages). |
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online resource rdacarrier |
| Series |
Children's literature and culture ; 35
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Books and reading.
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Authors -- 20th century -- Books and reading.
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Children's literature -- History and criticism.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Greenway, Betty.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Twice-told children's tales : the influence of childhood reading on writers for adults. New York : Routledge, [2005] xxvi, 247 pages ; 24 cm. Children's literature and culture ; 35 9780415972055 (OCoLC)ocm58535559 (DLC) 2005006350 |
| ISBN |
0415972051 (alk. paper : hardcover) |
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9780415972055 |
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9780203958421 (electronic bk.) |
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