The Narrative Symbol in Childhood Literature: Explorations in the Construction of Text

actions adult Adventures agency agent aspects audience author's text behavior book reading events Burke C.S. Lewis camera character character's Charlotte's Web Chatman child reader children's literature classroom constructed context conveyed cultural depicted discussion Doctor DeSoto emphasized episodic evident example experience extradiegetic fairy film focalization focus focused folktale function hero heterodiegetic high fantasy his/her Hobbit illustration implied author implied reader interaction interpretation kinesics language literary text meaning mediator Milo Milo's Miss Rumphius mother narrative discourse narrative elements narrative event narrative text narrator narrator's novel oral paralanguage participants particular pattern pentad performance perspective Peter Peter Rabbit Phantom Tollbooth picture book picture storybook plot purpose real reader reflect relationship response revealed role scene semiotic situation story reading storytelling suggests symbol tale teacher tells Text-related textual tiger tiger walked tion tollbooth tone traits types Wizard of Earthsea words