Research Catalog

Title

Character focalization in children's novels / Don K. Philpott.

Author

Philpot, Don K.

Publication

• London : This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature, [2017]
• ©2017

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Details

Description

x, 314 pages; 22 cm

Summary

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.

Subject

• Children's stories > History and criticism
• Characters and characteristics in literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Tables; 1: Introduction; 1.1 Fictional World Experiences and the Concept of Character Focalization; 1.2 Character Focalization in Ten Fictional Worlds; 1.3 Formatting Conventions, Abbreviations, and Symbols; 1.3.1 Formatting and Citing Conventions; 1.3.2 Target Novel Abbreviations; 1.3.3 Focalizing Structure Abbreviations; 1.3.4 Symbols; Part I: Investigating Character Focalization in Children's Novels; 2: Conceptualizing Character Focalization; 2.1 Orientation; 2.2 Character Focalization: A Heuristic Framework.
• 2.2.1 Character Focalization as Structure and Heuristic Framework2.2.2 Character Focalization Defined; 2.2.3 Framework Terminology; 2.2.3.1 Perception, Perceive, Perceiver, Perceived; 2.2.3.2 Focalizing Character, Focalized; 2.2.3.3 Focalizing Structures; 2.2.3.4 Systemic-functional Linguistic Terminology; 2.2.4 Framework Facets: A Narratological Perspective; 2.2.4.1 Perceptual Facet; 2.2.4.2 Psychological Facet; 2.2.4.3 Social-Psychological Facet; 2.2.5 Character Focalization as an Integrated Structure; 2.3 Personal Encounters and Developments.
• 2.4 Antecedents: Studies of Focalization and Point of View2.4.1 Studies of Focalization: Adult Literature Focus; 2.4.1.1 Internal Focalization; 2.4.1.2 The Importance of Genette's Work; 2.4.1.3 Rimmon-Kenan On Focalization; 2.4.1.4 Rimmon-Kenan's Formulation of Internal Focalization; 2.4.1.5 Character Focalization: Past and Present; 2.4.2 Studies of Focalization: Children's Literature Focus; 2.4.3 Markers of Focalization; 2.4.4 Studies of Narrative Point of View in Stylistics; 2.4.5 Focalization: Where Do We Go from Here?
• 2.5 The Present Study: Character Focalization in Children's Novels2.5.1 Antecedent Studies of Focalization and Narrative Point of View; 2.5.2 Research Questions; 2.6 Looking Back and Ahead; 3: Focalizing Structures; 3.1 Orientation; 3.2 Perceptual Experiences: Sensory Structures; 3.2.1 Perceptive Mental Clauses; 3.2.2 Perceptive-Type Behavioral Clauses; 3.3 Psychological Experiences: Emoting and Thinking Structures; 3.3.1 Emotive-Type Behavioral Clauses; 3.3.2 Non-projecting Mental Clauses; 3.3.2.1 Emotive Mental Clauses.
• 3.3.2.2 Non-projecting Desiderative and Cognitive Mental Clauses3.3.3 Attributive Clauses: Psychological Attribution; 3.3.3.1 Intensive Quality-Type Attributive Clauses; 3.3.3.2 Possessive Entity-Type Attributive Clauses; 3.3.4 Mental Projection; 3.3.4.1 Paratactic Thought; 3.3.4.2 Hypotactic Thought; 3.4 Sensory and Psychological Ascription; 3.4.1 Sensory Ascription; 3.4.1.1 SAS Attributive and Material Clause Structures: Process and Participant Selection; 3.4.1.1.1 SAS Attributive Clause Structures: Process Selection.

ISBN

• 1137558091
• 9781137558091
• 9781137558107 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• 961414324
• SCSB-10920636

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library