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Alternating Narratives Alternating with Other Things
Most of what appears here is my thinking about books I'm exploring for a project on alternating narratives in children's and young adult literature--books that describe events experienced by (and often, seen from the points of view of) two or more different characters in alternating sections or chapters. While my main focus is on children's books with two alternating narratives, I'm also looking at ones with three or more narrations, and also some adult books that alternate narrations. The other things? Whatever strikes my fancy.Category Cloud
aboriginality adult literature alternating narratives Amy Goldman Koss Berlie Doherty binary opposites book trailer Carol Matas children's and young adult literature family gender ghosts Helen Frost John Smelcer more than four narratives multiple authors my writing N.M. Browne observing with alarm opera other things past and present race Rashomon snippy comments three or four narratives Uncategorized variation verse William Mayne
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Seth Lerer’s Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter
Lerer, Seth. Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
This book, it seems, has just been named as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle 2008 awards for criticism. According to its website, the National Book Critics Circle consists of “more than 900 active [...]
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