The Narrative Symbol in Childhood Literature: Explorations in the Construction of Text (Approaches to Semiotics [AS], 93)

This authoritative new edition of the ancient scholia to Sophocles' Trachiniae is designed to replace the corresponding part of the Teubner text published in 1888. It is the first to rely on a complete scrutiny of the sources of the text and the conjectural activity of scholars, but is also characterised by a fresh methodological approach: the transmission of scholia is prone to creating different versions of basically the same material, and to making conflations of originally distinct entities; in the English preface these transmissional peculiarities guide the editor in establishing a methodology which is appropriate both for analysing the manuscript tradition and composing the critical text of the Trachiniae scholia. By applying this working tool, the editor is the first to restore the scholia to the Trachiniae in a textual state which is arguably the earliest we can recover, and is free of contradictions, unacceptable repetitions, and hybridisation or blending of elements from different versions. The critical text is accompanied by a detailed apparatus criticus, and is contextualised in its scholarly tradition by means of a rich collection of parallel passages. Extensive indices are provided at the end of the book. Chapter One. Toward a Theory of Narrative Discourse Terms of the Pentad Relationship Among Terms The Pentad and Childhood Literature Chapter Two. Act: Plot Plot Plot Patterns in Childhood Literature Conclusions Chapter Three. Act: Characterization Characterization Character in Childhood Literature Conclusions Chapter Four. Act: Narration Narration Narration in Children’s Novels Conclusions Chapter Five. Agents: Author and Reader The Author Agent The Reader Conclusions Chapter Six. Agency: Visual-Verbal Narrative Narrative Elements Relationship between Text and Pictures Conclusions Chapter Seven. Agency: Oral Performance The Folktale Narrative Oral Language Performance: Text as Event Conclusions Chapter Eight. Agency: Film Narrative Elements A Film Adaptation of a Book Two Film Versions of the Same Narrative Animated Films Conclusions Chapter Nine. Scene: Home and Community Book Reading Events in the Home Transition from Home to School Narrative in a Cultural Context Conclusions Chapter Ten. Scene: Classroom The Classroom as a Communicative Setting Book Reading Events in the Classroom Conclusions Chapter Eleven. Purpose: The Ends of the Narrative Kinds of Purposes Books for Instructional Purposes Instructional Purposes Disguised The Case of the Folktale The Reader’s Purposes Alteration of Children’s Favorite Texts Conclusions Chapter Twelve. The Pentad and a Narrative Event Scene Purpose Act Agency Co-Agents: Teachers and Students Conclusions Chapter Thirteen. Conclusions The Pentad and the Narrative Text The Pentad and Narrative Discourse Merging the Intrinsic and Extrinsic The Present Study in a Broader Perspective References Children’s Picture Books Children’s Novels and Other Narratives Non-Print Narratives Index