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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... never lies to himself , and these stories don't lie either . They paint a world pretty and ugly by turns , but a world we never fail to recognize . Without meaning to get fancy , and speaking only for myself , I have to say that I am ...
... never find out , let alone analyze and articulate . Still , ignorance of a subject has never been much hindrance to statesmen , economists , or philosophers , and certainly not to authors . The best way to learn something is to write a ...
... never really become that other traveler . A twentieth - century writer can never fully shed twentieth - century sensibilities , can never actually be- come a historical figure . The vitality of the narrator , Lunn writes , comes instead ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Narrating Chaucer Grimm New England | 25 |
Finding the Narrative Voice through Dramatically | 32 |
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