Telling children's stories
Subtitle: narrative theory and children's literature
By: edited by Mike Cadden
Series: Frontiers of narrative
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780803215689
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Mike Cadden; title: Part 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; title: Part 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; title: Part 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; title: Part 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.