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- Telling Children's Stories: Narrative Theory and Children's Literature
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: University of Nebraska Press
- Series: Frontiers of Narrative
summary
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. The volume is divided into four interrelated sections: “Genre Templates and Transformations,” “Approaches to the Picture Book,” “Narrators and Implied Readers,” and “Narrative Time.” Mike Cadden’s introduction considers the links between the various essays and topics, as well as their connections with such issues as metafiction, narrative ethics, focalization, and plotting. Ranging in focus from picture books to novels such as To Kill a Mockingbird, from detective fiction for children to historical tales, from new works such as the Lemony Snicket series to classics like Tom’s Midnight Garden, these essays explore notions of montage and metaphor, perspective and subjectivity, identification and time. Together, they comprise a resource that will interest and instruct scholars of narrative theory and children’s literature, and that will become critically important to the understanding and development of both fields.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page
- p. iii
- Copyright Page
- p. iv
- Table of Contents
- pp. v-vi
- Introduction
- pp. vii-xxv
- Part Two: Approaches to the Picture Book
- pp. 63-161
- Part Three: Narrators and Implied Readers
- pp. 163-227
- Part Four: Narrative Time
- pp. 229-292
- Further Reading
- pp. 293-302
- Contributors
- pp. 303-306
Additional Information
ISBN
9780803234093
Related ISBN(s)
9780803215689
MARC Record
OCLC
704517540
Pages
344
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No