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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... tales of another culture by attempting to capture its modes of plot structures , characterization , and language ? Can tales that have come from a specific culture be removed from that culture and allowed to stand simply as items of ...
... tales of Uncle Remus , he faced the tension of the permanence of the written page . Deciding that since each story is in some measure newly made with each telling , he perceived the written page only as the means for the transmission of ...
... tale . Pure , disembodied voice . Would that it were so simple . Instead , we have something more compli- cated . Voices belong to somebodies . Tales get told for a reason . So , we have to know who is doing the telling . And why . We ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Narrating Chaucer Grimm New England | 25 |
Finding the Narrative Voice through Dramatically | 32 |
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