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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... Jean Fritz , the design of biography is based upon the sense of incre- dulity she herself feels , an incredulity that is shared by her narrators . The details of history itself are so extraordinary , she argues , that a biographer need ...
... Jean Fritz's biographies . ) Humor is also a device of James Playsted Wood's narrators , as Marilyn Jurich observes ... Jean Fritz's Homesick : My Own Story , arguing that the autobiography comes as much from art as from memory ...
... Jean Fritz , Autobiography , and the Child Reader JANICE ALBERGHENE Although most autobiographers of childhood write for an adult audience , the past ten years have seen an ... Jean Fritz, Autobiography, and Child Reader JANICE ALBERGHENE.
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Narrating Chaucer Grimm New England | 25 |
Finding the Narrative Voice through Dramatically | 32 |
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