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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... consciousness provide a different kind of support for the young reader , establishing a point of identification but giving more opportunity for measuring that central character's perceptions within the total world created by the book ...
... consciousness appears in the work and what effects on the reader this choice of narrator might create . THE LONELY SON AS CENTRAL CONSCIOUSNESS In contrast to The Railway Children , Rawlings ' The Yearling makes full use of a central ...
... CONSCIOUSNESS In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ( 1916 ) , James Joyce uses a combination of stream of consciousness with an omniscient narrator to bring alive the Künstlerroman — the novel of the artist's development . I am ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Narrating Chaucer Grimm New England | 25 |
Finding the Narrative Voice through Dramatically | 32 |
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