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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... young readers to identify with a charac- ter - Madge — so strongly when she was young that they would be tricked into finding themselves inside the skin of an old woman later in the book . That the old character and the young character ...
... young readers with her protagonists . This skill is not to be scorned as a means of circumventing an intrusive omniscient narrator and focusing on the young protagonist . Still , the first- person form of narration has limitations that ...
... narratives about Nazism , the holocaust , and nuclear war avoid authoritative attitudes so that the young reader can question Narrative Voice in Young Readers' Fictions about Nazism, the Holocaust, and Nuclear War HAMIDA BOSMAJIAN.
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Narrating Chaucer Grimm New England | 25 |
Finding the Narrative Voice through Dramatically | 32 |
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