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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... Myths ( 1980 ) ; in 1985 a selection from this book was published for children as Axe - Age , Wolf - Age . Also in 1985 Michael Harrison published The Doom of the Gods , a copiously illustrated work telling many of the same stories for ...
... myth allows the reader a choice of consulting the note in full awareness that it will offer an interpretation or to ignore it . There is another problem for the narrator of Norse myths : what to do with the strange names , so hard to ...
... myths are presented without apology or copious explanation . Crossley - Hol- land claims , in the foreword to Axe - Age , Wolf - Age , that " the myths are not imprisoned in their own time and place ; they tell us of their makers but ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Narrating Chaucer Grimm New England | 25 |
Finding the Narrative Voice through Dramatically | 32 |
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