Overview
- Explores the ways focalizing characters experience their worlds perceptually and psychologically
- Shows that contemporary realistic novels written in the third person can be richly meaningful
- Presents emoting profiles for each focalizing character
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Investigating Character Focalization in Children’s Novels
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Perceptual and Psychological Development
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Personal Development and Understandings
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Character Focalization in and Beyond Children’s Novels
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Back Matter
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Reviews
“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)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Character Focalization in Children’s Novels
Authors: Don K. Philpot
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55810-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-55809-1Published: 01 March 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-55810-7Published: 26 January 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 314
Topics: Stylistics, Children's Literature, Language and Literature, Developmental Psychology, Fiction