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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... Night . Randall Jarrell starts Fly by Night with unusual specificity to convince the reader that this is a credible story . A boy named David lives on a specific road , a mile and a half north ; then Jarrell says , " You come to a lake ...
... night was done . I knew there would never be another night like this . No one said anything . We all just looked up at the sky and breathed out and in and we all thought the same things , but nobody said . Someone finally had to say ...
... night fears in " The Land of Nod " ( 371 ) , “ Young Night Thought " ( 363 ) , and “ The Land of Counterpane ” ( 370 ) . ( Contemporary children may need a gloss on counterpane . As a child I preferred the mystery of an unknown ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Narrating Chaucer Grimm New England | 25 |
Finding the Narrative Voice through Dramatically | 32 |
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