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Character Focalization in Children's Novels
Don K. Philpot
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Description for Character Focalization in Children's Novels
Hardback. Num Pages: 314 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFG; DSK; DSY; JMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 549.
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of character focalization in ten contemporary realistic children’s novels. The author argues that character focalization, defined as the location of fictional world perception in the mind of a character, is a prominent textual structure in these novels. He demonstrates how significant meanings are conveyed in a variety of forms related to characters’ personal and interpersonal experiences. Through close analysis of each text, moreover, he exposes distinctive perceptual, psychological, and social-psychological patterns in the opening chapters of each novel, which are thereafter developed by the principles of continuation, augmentation, and reconfiguration. This book will appeal ... Read more
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of character focalization in ten contemporary realistic children’s novels. The author argues that character focalization, defined as the location of fictional world perception in the mind of a character, is a prominent textual structure in these novels. He demonstrates how significant meanings are conveyed in a variety of forms related to characters’ personal and interpersonal experiences. Through close analysis of each text, moreover, he exposes distinctive perceptual, psychological, and social-psychological patterns in the opening chapters of each novel, which are thereafter developed by the principles of continuation, augmentation, and reconfiguration. This book will appeal ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
314
Condition
New
Number of Pages
314
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137558091
SKU
V9781137558091
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About Don K. Philpot
Don K. Philpot is Professor of Reading and Literacy at Shippensburg University, USA, where he specializes in the field of children’s literature stylistics. He teaches courses on disciplinary literacy, children’s literature, and literacy instruction for diverse students. His current research focuses on resilient fictional children and their transformative effects on real children.
Reviews for Character Focalization in Children's Novels
“This ambitious study tracks and categorises the experiences of fictional child characters in ten examples of contemporary realism for children, with publication dates spanning fifty years … . this study represents a welcome application of systemic functional linguistics to the study of children’s literature and provides many interesting ideas and practical tools for future research.” (Sarah Hardstaff, Barnboken, Vol. 41, ... Read more