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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... person point of view seems to create . This narrowness seems particularly evident in first - person fiction for young adults and children when the author seems unable to incorporate in the text any measures of the narrator's re ...
... person narration , while Gudrun Pausewang uses the first - person main character to envision and pre - figure a time to come in The Last Children of Schewenborn ( 1983 ) . Whitley Strieber in Wolf of Shadows ( 1985 ) and Louise Lawrence ...
... person discussions of Walter Jendrich and his son and the third - person center of consciousness when Walter recalls his childhood and teen years during the Nazi era . Each of the father - son dialogues moves to one of four questions ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Narrating Chaucer Grimm New England | 25 |
Finding the Narrative Voice through Dramatically | 32 |
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