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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... first person , which , by elimi- nating the mediation entirely , directly confronts the reader and tells its own story . First person child narration had been used with comic effect by Charles Dickens in his A Holiday Romance ( 1868 ) ...
... first- person point of view seems to create . This narrowness seems particularly evident in first - person fiction for young adults and children when the author seems unable to incorporate in the text any measures of the narrator's re ...
... first - person narrator contemporary with the age of the intended reader as well as the first - person narrator who , for therapeutic and pedagogic reasons , recalls the past from the vantage point of the present . Horst Burger's Why ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Narrating Chaucer Grimm New England | 25 |
Finding the Narrative Voice through Dramatically | 32 |
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