Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies -
Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Dusseldorf "Heinrich Heine,"
course: Hauptseminar "20th Century American Short Stories," 19
entries in the bibliography, language: English, comment: Gifted
children in the works of half a dozen American authors (e.g.
Nabokov and Salinger) are analyzed, terms like "prodigious,"
"precocious" et cetera are discussed and compared., abstract:
Preface: Defining the topic In literature, just like in reality,
gifted children may differ from each other in every aspect except
for the very existence of a special talent or very high
intelligence. Still, both in life and fiction, certain types can be
traced. The terms child prodigy or wunderkind evoke a child which
has developed outstanding skills in a certain area like chess (cp.
the protagonist of Amy Tan s short story "Rules of the Game" or
Luzhin in Nabokov s "Luzhin s defence"; in reality, almost every
grandmaster demonstrated exceptional skills in early childhood, the
most prominent example being probably Capablanca), music (McCullers
wunderkind in the short story of the same title does not live up to
a comparison with Mozart, but is also considered a piano prodigy as
a child), or any other art or science. In the study "Child
Prodigies and Exceptionally Early Achievers," the psychologist John
Radford practically equates the former with the latter, despite the
conjunction in the title. The Wikipedia offers a similar
definition: "A child prodigy, or simply prodigy, is someone who is
a master of one or more skills or arts at an early age. One
possible definition of a prodigy is a person who, by the age of 10,
displays expert proficiency in a field usually only undertaken by
adults"1. As this paper intends to study prodigious children in
American literature, the best source for a definitions seems to be
the leading American dictionary. However, Webster s2 is extremely
vague: "a person or thing of remarkable qualitie
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