Telling children's stories : narrative theory and children's literature / edited by Mike Cadden.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cadden, Michael.

Series:

Frontiers of narrative.

Frontiers of narrative

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's literature--History and criticism.

Children's literature.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Children's literature--Authorship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (347 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Pt. 3. Narrators and implied readers. Uncle Tom melodrama with a modern point of view : Harper Lee's To kill a mockingbird / Holly Blackford

The identification fallacy : perspective and subjectivity in children's literature / Maria Nikolajeva

The development of Hebrew children's literature : from men pulling children along to women meeting them where they are / Dana Keren-Yaar

Pt. 4. Narrative time. Shifting worlds : constructing the subject, narrative, and history in historical time shifts / Susan Stewart

"Whose woods these are I think I know" : narrative theory and Diana Wynne Jones's Hexwood / Martha Hixon

"Time no longer" : the context(s) of time in Tom's midnight garden / Angelika Zirker.

Pt. 1. Genre templates and transformations. Telling old tales newly : intertextuality in young adult fiction for girls / Elisabeth Rose Gruner

Familiarity breeds a following : transcending the formulaic in the Snicket series / Danielle Russell

The power of secrets : backwards construction and the children's detective story / Chris McGee

Pt. 2. Approaches to the picture book. Focalization in children's picture books : who sees in words and pictures? / Angela Yannicopoulou

No consonance, no consolation : John Burningham's Time to get out of the bath, Shirley / Magdalena Sikorska

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 / Alexandra Lewis

Perceiving The red tree : narrative repair, writerly metaphor, and sensible anarchy / Andrea Schwenke Wyile

Now playing : silent cinema and picture-book montage / Nathalie op de Beeck

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613050922

9781283050920

1283050927

9780803234093

0803234090

OCLC:

699475343