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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... historical writing , especially with the complex “ dating " of work to the time in which it was written , which ... historical fiction without reference to any adult work . They were certainly not written by people who had not read any ...
... historical fiction . The writer within this genre works on the interface of history and imagined story , playing the dual narrative role of the historian and the storyteller . Though bound by historical fact , the writer is free to ...
... historical figure . The vitality of the narrator , Lunn writes , comes instead from the passion of the author for an imaginary figure . Joan Blos , unlike many other writers of historical fiction , has created the historical events in ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Narrating Chaucer Grimm New England | 25 |
Finding the Narrative Voice through Dramatically | 32 |
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