Character Focalization in Children’s Novels

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-03-01
Mått148 x 210 x 23 mm
Vikt533 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor314
Upplaga17001
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9781137558091

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Chapter 1: Introduction.- PART I: INVESTIGATING CHARACTER FOCALIZATION IN CHILDREN’S NOVELS.- Chapter 2: Conceptualizing Character Focalization.- Chapter 3: Focalizing Structures.- Chapter 4: Character Focalization Selection and Development.- PART II: PERCEPTUAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT.- Chapter 5: Perceptual Facet Developments: Seeing and Hearing Experiences.- Chapter 6: Psychological Facet Developments: Emoting Experiences.- Chapter 7: Psychological Facet Developments: Cognitive Experiences.- PART III: PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND UNDERSTANDINGS.- Chapter 8: Understandings About Self.- Chapter 9: Understandings About Others.- Chapter 10: Understanding Personal ExperiencesPart IV Character Focalization In And Beyond Children’s Novels.- Chapter 11: Character Focalization In and Beyond 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, 2018)