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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... story is in some measure newly made with each telling , he perceived the written page only as the means for the transmission of the story . The tales ' elasticity would be preserved by the flesh and blood narrator that he created . So ...
... story is trans- mitted but it is not told . A story can only be told by a person , and that is what voice is , a flesh and blood human being whose voice is the embodiment of the community's past . When the story is being presented by ...
... stories . Quite the contrary . They communicated something of the lives of the storytellers , and even though a story is told by one person only , the story being told is not one person's story . In the story " Brer Rabbit Finally Gets ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Narrating Chaucer Grimm New England | 25 |
Finding the Narrative Voice through Dramatically | 32 |
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