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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... Songs ( Holiday House , 1988 ) . Copyright © 1988 by Myra Cohn Livingston . All rights reserved . Reprinted by permission of Marian Reiner for the author . Myra Cohn Livingston : Excerpts from " For Anna " from Wide Awake and Other ...
... Songs , Sea Songs , Earth Songs , Space Songs ; Celebrations ; Storm at the Jetty ; The Great Wall of China ; and The Tower of London- all published in the 1980s . Books like Boxes ! Boxes ! and Look Around , also published in the 1980s ...
... songs . In Earth Songs I was attempting in some way to relate the child's concept of the vastness of earth's deserts , mountains , forests , with its relatively small position in the universe . Shakespeare's line from Anthony and ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Narrating Chaucer Grimm New England | 25 |
Finding the Narrative Voice through Dramatically | 32 |
Copyright | |
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