Alternating Narratives in Fiction for Young Readers Twice Upon a Tim
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
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This timely new series brings innovative perspectives to research on children’s literature. It offers accessible but sophisticated accounts of contemporary critical approaches and applies them to the study of a diverse range of children’s texts - literature, film and multimedia. Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature includes monographs from both internationally recognised and emerging scholars. It demonstrates how new voices, new combinations of theories, and new shifts in the scholarship of literary and cultural studies illuminate the study of children’s texts.
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Perry Nodelman
Alternating Narratives in Fiction for Young Readers Twice Upon a Time
Perry Nodelman CRYTC, Department of English University of Winnipeg Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature ISBN 978-3-319-50816-0 ISBN 978-3-319-50817-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-50817-7 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017934526 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration © Chris Cheadle / Alamy Stock Photo Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This book began in a classroom a number of years ago—or rather, in the spirit of ‘twice upon a time’, in two classrooms. The classrooms were occupied by University of Winnipeg students in two sections of a course of Canadian children’s literature, one section taught by my colleague Mavis Reimer and one taught by me. As Mavis and I explain in an essay we later wrote about these classes, ‘Teaching Canadian Children’s Literature: Learning t
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