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

Contributor(s): Series: Frontiers of narrativePublication details: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2010.Description: xxv, 317 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780803215689 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0803215681 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809/.89282 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1009.A1 T445 2010
Contents:
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 -- 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- 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.

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