| Partial contents |
Infant joys : the pleasures of disempowerment in fantasy and science fiction / Eric S. Rabkin -- 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 / Frances Deutsch Louis -- Narrative uses of little Jewish girls in science fiction and fantasy stories : mediating between civilization and its own savagery / Susan Kray -- Triumph of teen-prop : Terminator II and the end of history / Gary Kern -- Forever child : Ender's game and the mythic universe of science fiction / George Slusser -- Child as alien / Joseph D. Miller -- Baby's next step : Ub̈erkinder and the burden of the future / Howard V. Hendrix -- E.T. as fairy tale / Andrew Gordon -- Child vision in the fantasy of George MacDonald / Gay Barton -- If not today, then tomorrow : fact, faith, and fantasy in Isaac Bashevis Singer's autobiographical writings / Alida Allison -- Real-world source for the "little people" : a comparison of fairies to individuals with Williams Syndrome / Howard M. Lenhoff -- Coming of age in fantasyland : the self-parenting child in Walt Disney animated films / Lynne Lundquist and Gary Westfahl -- Nasty boys, feminine longing, and mourning the mother in J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan and Anne Rice's The witching hour / Stephanie Barbé Hammer -- Unsealing sense in The turn of the screw / Susan J. Navarette -- Getting things in the right order : Stephen King's The shining, The stand, and It / Bud Foote. |
| Local note | Joyner-See also manuscript material related to the James H. and Virginia Schlobin Literature of the Fantastic Collection. Ask in Joyner Library Special Collections. |
| General note | Essays from the proceedings of the 15th Annual Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, held Apr. 1993 in Riverside, Calif. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Schlobin copy Gift of Chip Sullivan, 2005 |
| LCCN | 98047940 |
| ISBN | 0820320951 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0820321443 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
