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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... Verses even when they may have underrated their value to literature as a whole . James Pope Hennessey describes A Child's ... verse forms , confines himself to images from a child's reality , not to a grown - up's projection of it , and ...
... Verses during bouts of illness at Hyeres in 1883 and 1884. He chose to write verse while he was ill , thinking it would be less demanding than prose . His exacting standards instead made the project occupy his full attention . He wrote ...
... verse woos the speaker to invent further verses , to take part in creating the rhyme , to utilize his own fiddling stick or trip her own soft shoe . The verse is truly participatory in its wooing . To participate is to engage in verbal ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Narrating Chaucer Grimm New England | 25 |
Finding the Narrative Voice through Dramatically | 32 |
Copyright | |
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