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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... becomes a private but dramatic form . The records Constance keeps become purgative for her and a means of access for the reader into a female voice torn by conflict over the loss of the familiar and faced with the unfamiliar . In I'm ...
... become that other traveler . A twentieth - century writer can never fully shed twentieth - century sensibilities , can never actually be- come a historical figure . The vitality of the narrator , Lunn writes , comes instead from the ...
... become extinct . It is only a matter of time " ( 123 ) . Roland has only a choice of attitude with which to face the end ; there will be no internal audience for his memoir . Thus he speaks from the future that has been to the present ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Narrating Chaucer Grimm New England | 25 |
Finding the Narrative Voice through Dramatically | 32 |
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