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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... theme is not adventure but the failure of adventure , not the variety of the world but the sameness of human folly . Even the original , controlled Gulliver , however , sometimes betrays a moment of genuinely childlike insight ; he is ...
... themes of their own time " ( 226-27 ) , and whose themes are " anxiety , alienation , racial and social injustice , war , technological overload , and the dangers of urban life ” ( 228 ) . Fortunately , most of Stevenson's critics and ...
... theme of the book - light versus darkness - is the eminently civilized voice of Asimov himself — intelligent , witty , controlled , always looking sceptically at warfare , always conscious of the real " advances . " The plow and the ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Narrating Chaucer Grimm New England | 25 |
Finding the Narrative Voice through Dramatically | 32 |
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