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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... Images MAURICE SENDAK Maurice Sendak in an Interview with Charlotte F. Otten October 6 , 1987 , Ridgefield ... images - images that you transformed into an artistic narrative that deepens ( even mythol- ogizes ) the text and that ...
... images ; and the children's version that neuters the voice , or makes it friendly , and lets the images through will be most successful for this range of uses . The critical problem raised by this fact of reading is profound and far ...
... images of suffering culminating in the image of a dead baby taken away from its screaming mother : " They took the child away from the screaming woman by force and laid it across the chest of the dead young man . I saw how the bandage ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Narrating Chaucer Grimm New England | 25 |
Finding the Narrative Voice through Dramatically | 32 |
Copyright | |
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