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Demon or doll : images of the child in contemporary writing and culture
- Title
- Demon or doll : images of the child in contemporary writing and culture / Ellen Pifer.
- Author
- Pifer, Ellen.
- Publication
- Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2000.
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Details
- Description
- x, 272 p.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-268) and index.
- Contents
- The image of childhood, present and past -- Innocence on the brink: James's What Maisie knew -- The child at a turning point: James's The turn of the screw -- Nabokov's novel offspring: Lolita and her kin -- Ambiguous constructs: Kosinski's child as painted bird -- The child of apocalypse: Golding's Darkness visible -- New versions of the idyll: Lessing's The fifth child and Kundera's infantocracy -- History's offspring: Rushdie's Midnight's children -- Memory's child: Morrison's Beloved -- Reclaiming the lost child: McEwan's The child in time -- The child as mysterious agent: DeLillo's White noise.
- Call Number
- JFE 00-15834
- ISBN
- 0813919630 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0813919649 (paper : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 99462125
- OCLC
- 43334294
- Author
- Pifer, Ellen.
- Title
- Demon or doll : images of the child in contemporary writing and culture / Ellen Pifer.
- Imprint
- Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2000.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-268) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 00-15834