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Telling Children´s Stories: Narrative Theory and Children´s Literature
Cadden
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Description for Telling Children´s Stories: Narrative Theory and Children´s Literature
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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. The volume is divided into four interrelated sections: “Genre Templates and Transformations,” “Approaches to the Picture Book,” “Narrators and Implied Readers,” and “Narrative Time.” Mike Cadden’s introduction considers the links between the various essays and topics, as well as their connections with such issues as metafiction, narrative ethics, focalization, and plotting. Ranging in focus from picture books to novels such ... Read more
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. The volume is divided into four interrelated sections: “Genre Templates and Transformations,” “Approaches to the Picture Book,” “Narrators and Implied Readers,” and “Narrative Time.” Mike Cadden’s introduction considers the links between the various essays and topics, as well as their connections with such issues as metafiction, narrative ethics, focalization, and plotting. Ranging in focus from picture books to novels such ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
348
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803215689
SKU
V9780803215689
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About Cadden
Mike Cadden is a professor of English, the director of childhood studies, and the chair of the Department of English, Foreign Languages, and Journalism at Missouri Western State University. He is the author of Ursula K. Le Guin Beyond Genre: Fiction for Children and Adults. Contributors include Nathalie op de Beeck, Holly Blackford, Mike Cadden, Elisabeth Rose Gruner, Martha Hixon, ... Read more
Reviews for Telling Children´s Stories: Narrative Theory and Children´s Literature
"This book sounds a call for all literary scholars to embrace children's literature."—D.J. Brothers, CHOICE "Child literature scholars as well as students interested in narrative theory will no doubt repeatedly consult the in-depth analyses as well as the strong theoretical chapters in this valuable volume."—Yasmine Motawy, International Research Society for Children’s Literature "[Telling Children's Stories] is a welcome and accomplished ... Read more