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Series Editor's ForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: "Points of intersection . . . " "The Influence of Childhood Reading" Betty GreenwayPart 1: "To drift in the currents of my unconscious . . . " 1. A Child's-Eye Reading of Mark Twain--Madison Smartt Bell Part 2: "The place was full of books . . . "2. Borges and Georgie: Childhood Reading, Adult Writing, and the Shape of the Latin American Fantastic--Kimberly A. Nance3. A Lonely Impulse of Delight: One Reader's Childhood--Dana Gioia4. All the Stuff--Antonya Nelson5. Taking Flight: A Retrospect on Booking Passage--Ira Sadoff6. Bad Habits--Lee K. AbbottPart 3 "Wake me up in Wonderland and Whoville and Oz . . . "7. A Writer on the Yellow Brick Road: Salman Rushdie's Ozian Inspirations--Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak8. The Pudding, the Witch, and the Titan--Sabina Murray9. Fantastic Fellow-Travelers--X. J. Kennedy Part 4 "The essential eternal stories . . . "10. "Grains of Truth in the Wildest Fable": "Beauty and the Beast" Retold as JaneEyre--Christine Butterworth-McDermott11. Pictures First--Barry Unsworth12. Essential and Eternal--Penelope Lively13. Silver Chief--John McPheePart 5 "Whose echoes seem ineradicable . . . "14. Higgledy Piggledy, Gobbledygoo: The Rotted Residue ofNursery Rhyme in Sylvia Plath's Poetry--Luanne Castle15. Corrupting Children--W. D. Snodgrass16. Cuentos--Rudolfo Anaya17. Ineradicable Echoes--Charles WrightPart 6 "The luminous symbol of innocence . . . " 18. "Wonders Wild and New": Lewis Carroll's Alice Books and PostmodernWomen Writers--Carolyn Sigler19. Dreamhouse Revisited - Alison Habens Part 7 "An impossible idealism . . . "20. Mapping the Soupsweet Land: King Solomon's Mines in Graham Greene'sThe Heart of the Matter--Hope Howell Hodgkins21. Sheba's Breasts--D. M. Thomas22. E. Nesbit and Primrose Cumming--Maxine KuminPart 8 "Recuperated loss . . . "23. Punch Reads Aunt Judy: Kipling, Ewing, and the Uses of Children'sLiterature--Judith A. Plotz24. Three Men in a Boat--Andrei Codrescu25. Cowboys and Poets--C. K. WilliamsPart 9 "I could become a writer too . . . "26. Transmutations of Folktale and School Story in A Portrait of the Artist as aYoung Man--Jacqueline L. Gmuca 27. Dear Jade Snow--Maxine Hong KingstonPart 10 "To wash up on another island of truth . . . "28. From the Salty Unconscious of the Sea--Sandra AlcosserContributors' NotesIndex