Telling children's stories : narrative theory and children's literature / edited by Mike Cadden.
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
©2010.
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Series: | Frontiers of narrative.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Mike Cadden
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.