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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... imagination to project material from the past into the present and into the future . This combination of memory and imagination enables the narrator to comment upon the present and the future from the perspective of the past . In ...
... imagination in the young as well as an overconcern , particularly in children's writing , with the attention to the autonomous self . My work on The Child as Poet : Myth or Reality ? convinced me that the symbolism of nature was a ...
... imagination dictated the use of the narrative voice , as in " Comets " : Long distance travelers from the cold of space , ice - clad , dirty , journey to see the sun whose searing burn swells them with gas as on they race tugged by a ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Narrating Chaucer Grimm New England | 25 |
Finding the Narrative Voice through Dramatically | 32 |
Copyright | |
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