‘I shouldn’t even be telling you that I shouldn’t be telling you the story’: Pseudonymous Bosch and the postmodern narrator in children’s literature

IF 0.6 3区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Ella Wydrzynska
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This article furthers the somewhat underdeveloped area of research regarding the consideration of complex theoretical concepts such as postmodernism and metafiction in relation to children’s literature by concentrating on a stunningly complex—although by no means rare—experimental text aimed at 8–12 year-olds. Using The Secret Series by Pseudonymous Bosch as example, I examine how children’s literature can use such strategies to engage a child-reader and make them a tangible part of the construction of the novel. Drawing on elements of Text World Theory, diegetic narrative levels and the concept of the internal author, this study primarily explores the role of the interactive, visibly inventing, postmodern narrator, and, by extension, the dramatization of the reader as a part of the story. Framed against an academic background in which children’s literature was deemed unworthy of study or outright dismissed, this article illustrates why children’s literature is not only worthy of rigorous academic study in its own right but also that it often readily displays enough literary, linguistic, and narratological complexities to rival even the most sophisticated literature for adult readers.
“我甚至不应该告诉你我不应该给你讲这个故事”:假名博世和儿童文学中的后现代叙述者
这篇文章通过关注一篇针对8-12岁儿童的极其复杂(尽管绝非罕见)的实验文本,进一步推进了在儿童文学中考虑后现代主义和元小说等复杂理论概念的研究领域。以假名Bosch的《秘密系列》为例,我研究了儿童文学如何利用这些策略来吸引儿童读者,并使他们成为小说结构的有形组成部分。本研究借鉴了文本世界理论的元素、diegetic叙事水平和内部作者的概念,主要探讨了互动的、明显的发明性的后现代叙事者的作用,进而探讨了读者作为故事一部分的戏剧化。在儿童文学被认为不值得研究或被彻底否定的学术背景下,本文阐述了为什么儿童文学不仅本身就值得严格的学术研究,而且它往往很容易展示出足够的文学、语言、,叙事学的复杂性甚至可以与成人读者最复杂的文学作品相媲美。
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期刊介绍: Language and Literature is an invaluable international peer-reviewed journal that covers the latest research in stylistics, defined as the study of style in literary and non-literary language. We publish theoretical, empirical and experimental research that aims to make a contribution to our understanding of style and its effects on readers. Topics covered by the journal include (but are not limited to) the following: the stylistic analysis of literary and non-literary texts, cognitive approaches to text comprehension, corpus and computational stylistics, the stylistic investigation of multimodal texts, pedagogical stylistics, the reading process, software development for stylistics, and real-world applications for stylistic analysis. We welcome articles that investigate the relationship between stylistics and other areas of linguistics, such as text linguistics, sociolinguistics and translation studies. We also encourage interdisciplinary submissions that explore the connections between stylistics and such cognate subjects and disciplines as psychology, literary studies, narratology, computer science and neuroscience. Language and Literature is essential reading for academics, teachers and students working in stylistics and related areas of language and literary studies.
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