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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... tradition ; they were kept alive by re- tellings across generations . In City of Gold , Dickinson reconstructed an oral tradition . He approached the retellings through the voices of thirty - three distinct narrators . A Hebrew servant ...
... tradition . ( The oral tradition is in any case far from simple and has sophistications of its own . ) City of Gold is if anything more literary than the traditions I rejected . These are not voices , they are imitations of voices ...
... tradition of women's autobiography , a tradition she outlined several years ago in " Introduction : Women's Autobiography and the Male Tradition . " What is fascinating about Homesick are the ways in which it does and does not belong to ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Narrating Chaucer Grimm New England | 25 |
Finding the Narrative Voice through Dramatically | 32 |
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