Format:
1 Online-Ressource (347 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0803215681
,
0803234090
,
1283050927
,
9780803215689
,
9780803234093
,
9781283050920
Series Statement:
Frontiers of Narrative
Content:
The most accessible approach yet to children's literature and narrative theory, Telling Children's Stories is a comprehensive collection of never-before-published essays by an international slate of scholars that offers a broad yet in-depth assessment of narrative strategies unique to children's literature
Content:
11. The Development of Hebrew Children's Literature: From Men Pulling Children Along to Women Meeting Them Where They ArePart Four: Narrative Time; 12. Shifting Worlds: Constructing the Subject, Narrative, and History in Historical Time Shifts; 13. "Whose Woods These Are I Think I Know": Narrative Theory and Diana Wynne Jones's Hexwood; 14. "Time No Longer: The Context(s) of Time in Tom's Midnight Garden; Further Reading; Contributors; Index
Content:
6. Telling the Story, Breaking the Boundaries: Metafiction and the Enhancement of Children's Literary Development inThe Bravest Ever Bear and The Story of the Falling Star7. Perceiving The Red Tree: Narrative Repair, Writerly Metaphor, and Sensible Anarchy; 8. Now Playing: Silent Cinema and Picture-Book Montage; Part Three: Narrators and Implied Readers; 9. Uncle Tom Melodrama with a Modern Point of View: Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird; 10. The Identification Fallacy: Perspective and Subjectivity in Children's Literature
Content:
Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Part One: Genre Templates and Transformations; 1. Telling Old Tales Newly: Intertextuality in Young Adult Fiction for Girls; 2. Familiarity Breeds a Following: Transcending the Formulaicin the Snicket Series; 3. The Power of Secrets: Backwards Construction and the Children's Detective Story; Part Two: Approaches to the Picture Book; 4. Focalization in Children's Picture Books: Who Sees in Words and Pictures?; 5. No Consonance, No Consolation: John Burningham's Time to Get Out of the Bath, Shirley
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780803215689
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0803215681
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Telling children's stories Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2010
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
,
English Studies
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