Putting Away Childish Things: Incidents of \u3ci\u3eRecovery\u3c/i\u3e in Tolkien and Haddon

Abstract

Applies the concept of Recovery from Tolkien’s “On Fairy-stories” to an unusual subject—Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, a novel about a young boy with Asperger’s Syndrome