Character Focalization in Children's Novels

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. He demonstrates how significant meanings are conveyed in a variety of forms related to characters' personal and interpersonal experiences. Through close analysis of each text, moreover, he exposes distinctive perceptual, psychological, and social-psychological patterns in the opening chapters of each novel, which are thereafter developed by the principles of continuation, augmentation, and reconfiguration. This book will appeal to scholars, teachers, and students in the fields of narrative studies, stylistics, children's literature scholarship, linguistics, and education.

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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Don K. Philpot is Professor of Reading and Literacy at Shippensburg University, USA, where he specializes in the field of children's literature stylistics. He teaches courses on disciplinary literacy, children's literature, and literacy instruction for diverse students. His current research focuses on resilient fictional children and their transformative effects on real children.

Inhalt
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.