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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... fact that this enlightenment is against conventional morality ; in the case of Isabel Archer , it is prematurely crippling and , in the case of Lambert Strether , too late in arriving . This particular kind of irony does not lend itself ...
... fact , but this particular fact or phrase or word is what is wanted to represent a fact of the reader to see . Anything that is vivid and human will help the biographer to discover the configurations of a life . So I began writing ...
... fact and poetic . It is as if she achieves a double vision : she sees her subject as would a nature documentarist , equipped with a telescopic lens , yet also sees the world quite literally from a bird's - eye view , humanizing through ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Narrating Chaucer Grimm New England | 25 |
Finding the Narrative Voice through Dramatically | 32 |
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