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

By: Cadden, MichaelMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Frontiers of NarrativePublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (347 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780803234093Subject(s): Children's literature -- Authorship | Children's literature -- History and criticism | Narration (Rhetoric)Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Telling Children's Stories : Narrative Theory and Children's LiteratureDDC classification: 809/.89282 LOC classification: PN1009.A1 -- T445 2010ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- 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 -- 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 Star -- 7. 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 -- 11. The Development of Hebrew Children's Literature: From Men Pulling Children Along to Women Meeting Them Where They Are -- Part 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.
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.
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Intro -- 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 -- 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 Star -- 7. 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 -- 11. The Development of Hebrew Children's Literature: From Men Pulling Children Along to Women Meeting Them Where They Are -- Part 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.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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