Telling Children's Stories: Narrative Theory and Children's Literature

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Contents Introduction vii mike cadden part one genre templates and transformations 1 Telling Old Tales Newly: Intertextuality in Young Adult Fiction for Girls 3 elisabeth rose gruner 2 Familiarity Breeds a Following: Transcending the Formulaic in the Snicket Series 22 danielle russell 3 The Power of Secrets: Backwards Construction and the Children’s Detective Story 44 chris mcgee part two approaches to the picture book 4 Focalization in Children’s Picture Books: Who Sees in Words and Pictures? 65 angela yannicopoulou 5 No Consonance, No Consolation: John Burningham’s Time to Get Out of the Bath, Shirley 86 magdalena sikorska 6 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 100 alexandra lewis 7 Perceiving The Red Tree: Narrative Repair, Writerly Metaphor, and Sensible Anarchy 120 andrea schwenke wyile 8 Now Playing: Silent Cinema and Picture-Book Montage 140 nathalie op de beeck part three narrators and implied readers 9 Uncle Tom Melodrama with a Modern Point of View: Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird 165 holly blackford 10 The Identification Fallacy: Perspective and Subjectivity in Children’s Literature 187 maria nikolajeva 11 The Development of Hebrew Children’s Literature: From Men Pulling Children Along to Women Meeting Them Where They Are 209 dana keren-yaar part four narrative time 12 Shifting Worlds: Constructing the Subject, Narrative, and History in Historical Time Shifts 231 susan stewart 13 “Whose Woods These Are I Think I Know”: Narrative Theory and Diana Wynne Jones’s Hexwood 251 martha hixon 14 “Time No Longer”: The Context(s) of Time in Tom’s Midnight Garden 268 angelika zirker Further Reading 293 Contributors 303 Index 307 ...