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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... Dark Is Rising ( 1973 ) ranges beyond the Mabinogion , but Cafall , the curiously equine name of Arthur's dog , appears among the hunters of the boar , Twrch Trwyth , in " Kulhwch and Olwen " itself . By looking at two recent children's ...
... dark . The fire balloon still drifts and burns in the night sky of an as yet unburied summer . Why and how ? Because I say it is so . Is the ravine real and deep and dark at night ? It was , it is . I took my daughters there a few years ...
... Dark Ages , 373 , 398-400 The Dark Is Rising , 93-94 , 96 Darkness and the Butterfly , 162 , 177– 78 Dear Mili , 18 Dickinson , Emily , 358-60 Dickinson , Peter , 64-65 Didacticism , 244–45 , 288 , 292 , 339 Digging for Dinosaurs , 372 ...
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Introduction | 3 |
Narrating Chaucer Grimm New England | 25 |
Finding the Narrative Voice through Dramatically | 32 |
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