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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... experience and do not reflect the connected discourse of the text . Like surrealism , you give the simultaneity of experience , which is intensely dra- matic without movement . In Fly by Night , there is not a great deal of movement ...
... Experience ANN GRIFALCONI The attempt to condense an experience , develop a tale or tales , and capture the right voice to tell the tales - all these are woven out of the experience and upon the loom the mind's eye creates . One goes to ...
... experience writing orally , we are closer to participating in the literary experience than when we simply see marks on a page . And to participate in the literary experience is , Barthes would remind us , to take pleasure in the text ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Narrating Chaucer Grimm New England | 25 |
Finding the Narrative Voice through Dramatically | 32 |
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