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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... biographical figure to answer the title's challenge . When the actual text begins , the narrator has moved the reader out of the genre of historical fiction and into that of biography , where the distance between the narrator , the ...
... biography that seems to participate in a number of genres : folklore , fantasy , historical fiction , nonfiction informa- tional books . The narration itself is fragmented , so that though one narrative voice dominates , it is itself at ...
... biography underwent changes in approach after 1966 . Wood , so we glean from his discourse on writing biography , is a trickster— often ironic , proposing the preposterous and declaring the devious . This combination of humor and irony ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Narrating Chaucer Grimm New England | 25 |
Finding the Narrative Voice through Dramatically | 32 |
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