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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... Myth ALICE MILLS In retelling Norse myth for children , narrators face problems encountered by every twentieth - century reteller of myth . The audience when a myth was originally told or sung knew a great deal that a modern audience ...
... myth sequence yet to be completed , while Harrison treats the sequence as a long - ago and finished story to be recounted through- out in the past tense . One choice is truer to the surviving texts of Norse myth , the other to the ...
... Myths is presented as a full collection , and Cross- ley - Holland justifies his selection from the ancient texts by an explicit def- inition of myth as " sacred history set in a mythical time , involving supernatural beings who create ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Narrating Chaucer Grimm New England | 25 |
Finding the Narrative Voice through Dramatically | 32 |
Copyright | |
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