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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... written for adults or for children , whether it was written recently or centuries ago , who tells the story makes all the difference . And the question they tackled was , Who is the who ? They began the difficult but exhilarating task ...
... written page . Deciding that since each story is in some measure newly made with each telling , he perceived the written page only as the means for the transmission of the story . The tales ' elasticity would be preserved by the flesh ...
... written words become reified . When we read these reified words , we do so silently , and more often than not ... Writing that can be heard offers us " language lined with flesh , " as Roland Barthes puts it . " Writing aloud " is ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Narrating Chaucer Grimm New England | 25 |
Finding the Narrative Voice through Dramatically | 32 |
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