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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... moon , the effects of rain , snow , smog , and the color of a sunset . Each poem is at triple cinquain , a form I had experimented with in O Sliver of Liver . Sea Songs might have taken any voice , yet it is doubtful that I could have ...
Insights from Writers and Critics Charlott Otten, Gary D. Schmidt. Moon , speak once more the dreams ... In this way I hoped that with the simplest of words children might be inclined to focus on both sun and moon as subjects for their ...
... Moon of Gomrath , 97 The Moon of the Winter Bird , 373 , 392 Moon - Whales and Other Moon Poems , 256 Moral Emblems , 245 Morley , Patricia , 4 Mummies Made in Egypt , 373 , 390 , 391-92 Munsch , Robert , 253 Myth : Celtic , 92 , 109 ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Narrating Chaucer Grimm New England | 25 |
Finding the Narrative Voice through Dramatically | 32 |
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