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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... realistic animal story , in which animals are given no power of speech , evolved and took root in the expansive wilderness and frontier of North America . Ernest Thompson Seton's Wild Animals I Have Known was pub- lished in 1898 , and ...
... Realistic Fiction for Children LOIS R. KUZNETS The critical theories of Henry James have been , for the most part , applied only to adult fiction . Indeed , as Felicity Hughes demonstrates , James took some pains to disassociate his realism ...
... realistic children's and young adult literature . In fact , however , the development of a central consciousness was not the point of view of choice of many realistic novels for children and young adults in the twentieth century . Until ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Narrating Chaucer Grimm New England | 25 |
Finding the Narrative Voice through Dramatically | 32 |
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