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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... meaning . Cooney's self - conscious choices of elements are , paradoxically , her way of linking the consciousness of her readers to her own . For Leonard Everett Fisher , the changes in his voice are essential to his identity . Both an ...
... meaning to be " not so much dis- cursive as dramatic . " Sloan argues : Meaning should be grasped not merely in terms of denotation and connotation but also in terms of speaker , situation , and action . Meaning is , in short , what ...
... meaning . The meaning of " Willoughby Wallaby Woo " is right here , in its creation of com- munity through the invitation to play with the text . The authority of the author transfers to the reader and the text is no longer fixed and ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Narrating Chaucer Grimm New England | 25 |
Finding the Narrative Voice through Dramatically | 32 |
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