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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... suggests 1750 as a speculative date for a chapbook printed in Aldermary Church Yard , London , a twenty - four - page version of Lilliput ; but he points out , significantly , that its woodcuts are badly worn , suggesting many earlier ...
... suggest a union of narrator and character ( much like the titles of many of Jean Fritz's biographies . ) Humor is also a device of James Playsted Wood's narrators , as Marilyn Jurich observes . Wood suggests that the biographer must be ...
... suggests , seek to force onto medieval history a narrator who distorts that history and suggests the authors ' own distaste . For Anno in Anno's Medieval World , the design is a movement from the barbarian , superstitious world of the ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Narrating Chaucer Grimm New England | 25 |
Finding the Narrative Voice through Dramatically | 32 |
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