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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... fiction an awareness of , perhaps even a preoccupation with , the technical aspects and theories of narration . By ... fiction : The narrator's voice is not what separates children's fiction from adult fiction . In either case , voice ...
... fiction , Richter is struggling with the tensions of the genre of historical fiction . The writer within this genre works on the interface of history and imagined story , playing the dual narrative role of the historian and the ...
... fiction are mysterious and complex . I sometimes think that only those who write fiction find them believable . All of this matters much , much less than the extent to which the story- the fiction , the fib , the lie , the dream - is ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Narrating Chaucer Grimm New England | 25 |
Finding the Narrative Voice through Dramatically | 32 |
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