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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... past tense , so that the last days of Ragnarok and the coming of a new world have already occurred in the storyteller's past . The only excursions into the present are a direct address to the reader on the last page and on the first ...
... past . In her role as a writer of historical fiction , Clapp listened to the voices of the past through reading diaries , letters , newspapers , journals , legal proceedings , military history ; there she heard young female voices at ...
... past because they speak with their own voices , recording their experiences from the time the first slave ship landed in Virginia , to the present . Another kind of book , again drawing on living history as reflected in people's own ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Narrating Chaucer Grimm New England | 25 |
Finding the Narrative Voice through Dramatically | 32 |
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