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Enchanted hunters : the power of stories in childhood / Maria Tatar.

By: Publication details: New York : W. W. Norton, 2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: viii, 296 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780393066012 (hardcover)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809/.89282 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1009.A1 T37 2009
Contents:
Introduction: Comfort zones or conflict zones -- Reading them to sleep : storytelling and the invention of bedtime reading -- Beauty, horror, and ignition power : can books change us -- Now I lay me down to sleep : brushes with death -- The magic art of the great humbug : how to do things with words -- Theaters for the imagination : what words can do to you.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-284) and index.

Introduction: Comfort zones or conflict zones -- Reading them to sleep : storytelling and the invention of bedtime reading -- Beauty, horror, and ignition power : can books change us -- Now I lay me down to sleep : brushes with death -- The magic art of the great humbug : how to do things with words -- Theaters for the imagination : what words can do to you.

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