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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... reader within a myth sequence yet to be completed , while Harrison treats the sequence as a long - ago and finished story to be recounted through- out in the past tense . One choice is truer to the surviving texts of Norse myth , the ...
... reader and the narrator . The reader of the Prydain Chronicles , like the reader of medieval romance , comes to the narrative with certain expectations . The reader expects Taran to be nobly born , expects Taran not to be merely an ...
... reader does , too , achieving what Booth calls " a secret communion of the author and reader behind the narrator's back " ( 300 ) . He has finally escaped any narrator . " 1 The effect of Mayne's novel , as Booth warns and as we can ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Narrating Chaucer Grimm New England | 25 |
Finding the Narrative Voice through Dramatically | 32 |
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