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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... style and high style . " Low style " is as - told - to - the - children , bland , simple , ho- mogenized , describing a world in which very clean shepherds look after very white and woolly lambs in a sunny but strangely hazed place ...
... style nor the low style can any longer be . Of course I did not think of what I was doing in such hifalutin ' terms . Like any writer , I simply thought “ This is an interesting idea — I hope I can make it work . " And of course , I ...
... style in its most rudimentary form is merely the process of stringing words together . By that process , style automatically results . It can be good or bad , elegant or awful . " One loaf rye brd . 3 qts . milk ” constitutes style ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Narrating Chaucer Grimm New England | 25 |
Finding the Narrative Voice through Dramatically | 32 |
Copyright | |
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