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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... characters in children's fiction have always been those loyal companions who accompany the young hero or heroine on their main adventures and indeed often make such adventures possible in the first place . Such supportive characters do ...
... characters , though she was not as blatantly outside her characters as the narrator in my stiff example above . She viewed her characters from an omniscient position , able to see into children and adults alike . She not only told us ...
... characters must speak with their own voice and out of a sense of who and what they are . Their thoughts , actions ... characters lived , so they can't write out of themselves . Or perhaps , their characters lived in a place the author ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Narrating Chaucer Grimm New England | 25 |
Finding the Narrative Voice through Dramatically | 32 |
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