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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... tone , and especially through narrative voice . These are elusive terms , overlapping and merging with each other ... Tone , I suggest , is something else again . It involves such things as level of discourse , diction , the techniques ...
... tone . Analysis of tone depends on " minute language signs . " Tone is set by the complex set of relations among such signs , becoming the tonal pattern pro- jected by the poet - speaker ( Brower , 101-2 , 108 ) . As George T. Wright ...
... tone of prim propriety ? In the role of teacher or preacher , Stevenson can never maintain the consistently serious tone necessary to the moral instructor . He plays this role seldom , and when he does , the voice is often colored by an ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Narrating Chaucer Grimm New England | 25 |
Finding the Narrative Voice through Dramatically | 32 |
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