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Twice-told children's tales : the influence of childhood reading on writers for adults
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- Summary
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First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Details
- Creator
- edited by Betty Greenway
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New York : Routledge, 2005
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (274 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781135468910, 1135468915, 9780415867153, 0415867150, 9780203958421, 020395842X, 9781135468842, 1135468842, 0415972051, 1299868193
- OCLC
- ocn870590564, ocn858861232
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- 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