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Telling children's stories : narrative theory and children's literature /

Telling children's stories : narrative theory and children's literature / edited by Mike Cadden. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2010. - xxv, 317 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. - Frontiers of narrative . - Frontiers of narrative. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Telling old tales newly : intertextuality in young adult fiction for girls / Familiarity breeds a following : transcending the formulaic in the Snicket series / The power of secrets : backwards construction and the children's detective story / Focalization in children's picture books : who sees in words and pictures? / No consonance, no consolation : John Burningham's Time to get out of the bath, Shirley / 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 / Perceiving The red tree : narrative repair, writerly metaphor, and sensible anarchy / Now playing : silent cinema and picture-book montage / Uncle Tom melodrama with a modern point of view : Harper Lee's To kill a mockingbird / The identification fallacy : perspective and subjectivity in children's literature / The development of Hebrew children's literature : from men pulling children along to women meeting them where they are / Shifting worlds : constructing the subject, narrative, and history in historical time shifts / "Whose woods these are I think I know" : narrative theory and Diana Wynne Jones's Hexwood / "Time no longer" : the context(s) of time in Tom's midnight garden / Elisabeth Rose Gruner -- Danielle Russell -- Chris McGee -- Angela Yannicopoulou -- Magdalena Sikorska -- Alexandra Lewis -- Andrea Schwenke Wyile -- Nathalie op de Beeck -- Holly Blackford -- Maria Nikolajeva -- Dana Keren-Yaar -- Susan Stewart -- Martha Hixon -- Angelika Zirker. Pt. 1. Genre templates and transformations. Pt. 2. Approaches to the picture book. Pt. 3. Narrators and implied readers. Pt. 4. Narrative time.

9780803215689 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0803215681 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Children's literature--History and criticism.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Children's literature--Authorship.

PN1009.A1 / T445 2010

809/.89282

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