Twice-Told Childrens Tales: The Influence of Childhood Reading on Writers for Adults, Vol. 35 Book

	Introduction : "points of intersection..."
	The influence of childhood reading
1	A child's-eye reading of Mark Twain	3
2	Borges and Georgie : childhood reading, adult writing, and the shape of the Latin American fantastic	11
3	Lonely impulse of delight : one reader's childhood	27
4	All the stuff	33
5	Taking flight : a retrospect on booking passage	39
6	Bad habits	45
7	A writer on the yellow brick road : Salman Rushdie's Ozian inspirations	51
8	The pudding, the witch, and the titan	69
9	Fantastic fellow-travelers	73
10	"Grains of truth in the wildest fable" : "Beauty and the beast" retold as Jane Eyre	79
11	Pictures first	99
12	Essential and eternal	103
13	Silver chief	105
14	Higgledy piggledy, gobbledygoo : the rotted residue of nursery rhyme in Sylvia plath's poetry	109
15	Corrupting children	125
16	Cuentos	127
17	Ineradicable echoes	129
18	"Wonders wild and new" : Lewis Carroll's Alice books and postmodern women writers	133
19	Dreamhouse revisited	147
20	Mapping the soupsweet land : King Solomon's mines in Graham Greene's the heart of the matter	151
21	Sheba's breasts	175
22	E. Nesbit and primrose cumming	177
23	Punch reads aunt Judy : Kipling, Ewing, and the uses of children's literature	183
24	Three men in a boat	199
25	Cowboys and poets	201
26	Transmutations of folktale and school story in : a portrait of the artist as a young man	207
27	New year's day, year of the horse	221
28	From the salty unconscious of the sea	225