UID:
almafu_9959227393702883
Format:
1 online resource (347 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-283-05092-7
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9786613050922
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0-8032-3409-0
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.
Note:
Uncle Tom melodrama with a modern point of view : Harper Lee's To kill a mockingbird /
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The identification fallacy : perspective and subjectivity in children's literature /
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The development of Hebrew children's literature : from men pulling children along to women meeting them where they are /
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Shifting worlds : constructing the subject, narrative, and history in historical time shifts /
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"Whose woods these are I think I know" : narrative theory and Diana Wynne Jones's Hexwood /
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"Time no longer" : the context(s) of time in Tom's midnight garden /
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Telling old tales newly : intertextuality in young adult fiction for girls /
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Familiarity breeds a following : transcending the formulaic in the Snicket series /
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The power of secrets : backwards construction and the children's detective story /
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Focalization in children's picture books : who sees in words and pictures? /
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No consonance, no consolation : John Burningham's Time to get out of the bath, Shirley /
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Telling the story, breaking the boundaries : metafiction and the enhancement of children's literary development in The bravest ever bear and The story of the falling star /
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Perceiving The red tree : narrative repair, writerly metaphor, and sensible anarchy /
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Now playing : silent cinema and picture-book montage /
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8032-1568-1
Language:
English
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