The Voice of the Narrator in Children's Literature: Insights from Writers and CriticsCharlott Otten, Gary D. Schmidt As Otten and Schmidt note in their preface, voice is a broad metaphor. Thus the 41 essays in this collection provide varied approaches, examining point of view, focus, selection of details, tone, and even illustrations as part of the narrative identity. Eight genres, including picture books, fantasy, realism, and biography, receive separate study in generally brief articles by writers and more substantial analyses by critics. . . . In her contribution, Jill Paton Walsh describes contemporary criticism as an `impenetrable thicket of technical terms.' In most cases, the critics here avoid jargon. They speak clearly, offering practical criticsm accessible to anyone seriously concerned about narrative technique in children's literature. Choice |
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... audience when a myth was originally told or sung knew a great deal that a modern audience cannot be assumed to know . The Norse audience would have been familiar with many tales about Asgard and the land of the giants , Thor and Odin ...
... audience , which participates in the action as it is mediated by the chorus . In writing Watership Down I had very much the concept in my mind that I was the chorus , talking to the reader and commenting upon the action . The job of the ...
... audience . This network of relationships directs the matter of tone . Analysis of tone depends on " minute language signs . " Tone is set by the complex set of relations among such signs , becoming the tonal pattern pro- jected by the ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Narrating Chaucer Grimm New England | 25 |
Finding the Narrative Voice through Dramatically | 32 |
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