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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... animal lives . By claiming such inside knowl- edge , Potter creates a credible animal universe that exists side by side with the human . By placing herself both in the illustration and in the narrative of her books , Potter solidifies ...
... Animal Romance , and the Cowboy Narrator JAMES E. HIGGINS The animal story is an ancient genre kept existent by writers of great merit like Kenneth Grahame and E. B. White , who created modern masterpieces of animal fancy in which talking ...
... animal story was still a taboo , es- pecially in a book that might be read by or shared with children . It turns out that the publishers ' concerns abut the strongly negative reception the public might give to any such inclusion were ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Narrating Chaucer Grimm New England | 25 |
Finding the Narrative Voice through Dramatically | 32 |
Copyright | |
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