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""Contents""; ""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""