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Title
Alternating narratives in fiction for young readers : twice upon a time / Perry Nodelman.
ISBN
9783319508177 (electronic book)
3319508172 (electronic book)
9783319508160
3319508164
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Copyright
©2017
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Call Number
PN3443 .N62 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
809.300835
Summary
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. .
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description
Online resource, title from PDF title page (viewed May 24, 2017).
Series
Critical approaches to children's literature.
1. Alternating Narratives: An Introduction
2 Alternating Narratives as Puzzles
3. Alternating Narratives and Represented Writing
4. Fictional Collage as Alternating Narratives
5. Distance Education: The Readerly Effects of Alternating Narratives
6. Alternating Narratives as Variations of Each Other
7. Structural Ideologies in Alternating Narratives: Individuality
8. Structural Ideologies in Alternating Narratives: Connection and Community
9. Structural Ideologies in Alternating Narratives: Indigeneity
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