ENG 224 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Unreliable Narrator, England In The Middle Ages, Visual Angle
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Historical fiction: a work that is set in a period earlier than and significantly different from the one in which it was written. Popular settings of historical children"s literature: medieval england, american revolution and civil war, frontier life, world war i, the great depression, the holocaust. The value of historical children"s literature: trauma: opportunity to work through traumatic events of the past, nostalgia and nationalism: focus on a more idealized past in relation to national mythology, accuracy and authenticity. Narrator: a speaker through whom an author presents a narrative (a story), often but not always a character in the work. Point of view: voice (verbal quality of narration: how things are described, focus (visual angle: what we are shown) Narrator: first-person narrator (internal: i , third-person narrator (external: separate speaker) Usually but not necessarily a participant within the story. Third-person limited (point of view of one character: focalizer)
