Overview
- Offers a new perspective on narrative theory from a world-class expert in the field of Children's Literature
- Takes alternative narration as its sole subject - the first book to do so
- Covers a wide range of novels from several continents
Part of the book series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature (CRACL)
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About this book
This book is about the implications of novels for young readers that tell their stories by alternating between different narrative lines focused on different characters. It asks: if you make sense of fiction by identifying with one main character, how do you handle two or more of them? Do novels with alternating narratives diverge from longstanding conventions and represent a significant change in literature for young readers? If not, how do these novels manage to operate within the parameters of those conventions? This book considers answers to these questions by means of a series of close readings that explore the structural, educational and ideological implications of a variety of American, British, Canadian and Australian novels for children and for young adults.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Perry Nodelman is Professor Emeritus at the University of Winnipeg, Canada, and the author of three previous books and around 150 essays in academic journals on various aspects of children's literature. He is the 2015 recipient of International Grimm Award for Research in Children’s Literature.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Alternating Narratives in Fiction for Young Readers
Book Subtitle: Twice Upon a Time
Authors: Perry Nodelman
Series Title: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50817-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-50816-0Published: 26 April 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84498-5Published: 21 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-50817-7Published: 17 April 2017
Series ISSN: 2753-0825
Series E-ISSN: 2753-0833
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 249
Topics: Children's Literature, Fiction, North American Literature