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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... perhaps evidence of its narrative so- phistication that , in looking at it to try to discover the voices used by its im- plied author and its narrators , and to identify the qualities of its implied reader , observations by Seymour ...
... perhaps not then - as the Louisa May Alcott works because she did have a very real sense of what children were like and how their lives and thinking developed , even though she tended to idealize certain traits . It was not long ...
... perhaps because Emerson's life allows Wood too little controversy , puzzle , or jest . There are a few humorous asides . After Emerson's Aunt , Mary Moody Emerson , disavows her nephew for the apostasy he expressed in " The Harvard ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Narrating Chaucer Grimm New England | 25 |
Finding the Narrative Voice through Dramatically | 32 |
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