Nursery Realms : Children in the Worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror,9780820320953

Nursery Realms : Children in the Worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror

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ISBN13: 9780820320953
ISBN10: 0820320951
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-08-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Georgia Pr
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Author Biography

Gary Westfahl teaches at the University of California, Riverside. George Slusser is a professor of comparative literature and director of the Eaton Program for Science Fiction and Fantasy Studies at the University of California, Riverside.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii(2)
Introduction: Return to Innocence ix
Gary Westfahl
PART 1 FANTASTIC CHILDREN: OVERVIEWS AND CASE STUDIES 3(70)
Infant Joys: The Pleasures of Disempowerment in Fantasy and Science Fiction
3(17)
Eric S. Rabkin
The Humpty Dumpty Effect, or Was the Old Egg Really All It Was Cracked Up to Be: Context and Coming of Age in Science fiction and fantasy
20(9)
Frances Deutsch Louis
Narrative Users of Little Jewish Girls in Science fiction and Fantasy Stories: Mediating Between Civilization and Its Own Savagery
29(19)
Susan Kray
The Triumph of Teen-Prop: Terminator II and the End of History
48(25)
Gary Kern
PART 2 THE CHILDREN OF SCIENCE FICTION 73(58)
The forever Child: Ender's Game and the Mythic Universe of Science fiction
73(18)
George Slusser
The Child as Alien
91(9)
Joseph D. Miller
Baby's Next Step: Uberkinder and the Burden of the future
100(11)
Howard V. Hendrix
E.T. as Fairy Tale
111(20)
Andrew Gordon
PART 3 THE CHILDREN OF FANTAST AND HORROR 131(80)
Child Vision in the Fantasy of George MacDonald
131(11)
Gay Barton
If Not Today, Then Tomorrow: Fact, faith, and Fantasy in Isaac Bashevis Singer's Autobiographical Writings
142(8)
Alida Allison
A Real-World Source for the "Little People": A Comparison of Fairies to Individuals with Williams Syndrome
150(11)
Howard N. Lenhoff
Coming of Age in Fantasyland: The Self-Parenting Child in Walt Disney Animated Films
161(10)
Lynne Lundquist
Gary Westfahl
Nasty Boys, Feminine Longing, and Mourning the Mother in J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan and Anne Rice's Be Witching Hour
171(14)
Stephanie Barbe Hammer
Unsealing Sense in The Turn of the Screw
185(15)
Susan J. Navarette
Getting Things in the Right Order: Stephen King's The Shining, The Stand, and It
200(11)
Bud Foote
Contributors 211(2)
Index 213

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