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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... oral tradition in written form ; the contemporary writer can only hope to imitate the oral voice of folklore and myth . The voices , however , are more than bardic echoes . Tuning his readers in to voices of the past , he helps them ...
... oral literature " is . For writing and literature are , in themselves , necessarily silent , marks on a page that may have typographical and chirographical life , but that can have no oral - aural life until they are voiced , that is ...
... oral residue . “ Moon - Wind " is about silence ; the poem's center is in language that repeats and resounds and ... oral in its incantatory voice . Its repetitions , the rise and fall of its cadence hark back to the oral chant , the ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Narrating Chaucer Grimm New England | 25 |
Finding the Narrative Voice through Dramatically | 32 |
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