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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... Robert Louis Stevenson . 2 vols . Edited by Sidney Colvin . New York : Greenwood Press , 1969. Reprint of The Valima Letters , Being Correspondence Addressed to Sidney Colvin by Robert Louis Stevenson , 1894 . Stewart , John A. RLS : A ...
... Robert Fulton were put together in one book called Watt Got You Started , Mr. Fulton ? ( 1982 ) . Although these two great inventors had lived in different times , my reason for putting them together was because Fulton had used a Watt ...
... Robert , 329. Works : Don't You Dare Shoot That Bear ! 344 ; Take Me Out to the Airfield , 342 ; Watt Got You Started , Mr Ful- ton ? 343 ; Who Said There's No Man on the Moon ? 345 Rabble Starkey , 182 The Railway Children , 190 , 191 ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Narrating Chaucer Grimm New England | 25 |
Finding the Narrative Voice through Dramatically | 32 |
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