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The purloined child. American identity and representations of childhood in American literature 1851-2000

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    Zofia Kolbuszewska ; The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. Institute of English Philology.
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    [Zawiera:] Preface. Introduction. * I: Haunted Domesticity: Dead CHildren in the Stories of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Mary Wilkins Freeman and Ellen Glasgow. II: The Child, the Mirror(s) and Passing: Aporias of "Optic White" and "Race" as Performance in Kate Chopin's "Desiree's Baby" and Mark Twain's "Pudd'nhead Wilson". III: Purloined Innocence, "Nothing to Whack" and Catacombs: Children, Ghost and the Chronotope in "The Turn of the Screw" [Henry'ego Jamesa] and "Accursed Inhabitants Of The House of Bly" [Joyce Carol Oates]. IV: Immortalizing the (Shattered) Arcadia of Childhood: American Suburbia and Disrupted Narratives of Domecity [dot. powieści Shirley Jakcson: "The Sundial" i "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" oraz "Lolity" Vladimira Nabokova]. V: Horrific Pregnancies and Monstrous Progeny: Figuring Anxiety about the Unknown [dot. "Rosemary's Baby" Iry Levina oraz "Bloodchild" Octavii Butler]. VI: The Child and History in Contemporary Horror Literature: Stasis vs. Individuation in Stepehen King's "The Shining" and Anne Rice's "Intwrview with the Vampire". VII: Between Remembered Futurity and Anticipated Past: The (Neo)Romantic Child, American National Narrative, Postmodern Apocalypse and Phantom Community [dot. "Something Happened" Josepha Hellera, "White Noise" Dona DeLillo i "Mason & Doxon" Thomasa Pynchona]. VIII: The Little Man Who Isn't There, the Demon Child, and Child Abduction: The Uncanny, the Abject, and the Discourse of Waste in Thomas Pynchon ["The Secret Integration"], Toni Moriison ["Beloved"] and Toni Cade Bambara ["Those Bones Are Not My Child"]. IX: Edward Gorey's Horror Alphabet, Beastly Babies and Hapless Children. * Conclusion. Work Cited. Index of Names. Subject Index. Streszczenie.


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