Parental vs. Child Perspectives in Recent Picturebooks

master's thesis

• Title (croatian): Dječja i roditeljska perspektiva u suvremenim slikovnicama
• Author: Tanja Kosanović
• Mentor: Smiljana Narančić-Kovač (mentor)
• Mentor: Nada Kujundžić (sumentor)
• Committee member: Marija Andraka (predsjednik povjerenstva)
• Committee member: Smiljana Narančić-Kovač (član povjerenstva)
• Committee member: Silvija Hanžić Deda (član povjerenstva)
• Granter: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Teacher Education; Zagreb
• Defense date and country: 2019-09-20, Croatia
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: HUMANISTIC SCIENCES; Philology

Abstract

One of the most significant aspects of a picturebook is that it has two discourses, the visual and the verbal, which, combined, convey a unique story. The thesis deals with narrative picturebooks created by established authors in recent decades. The analysis aims to identify and compare the perspectives of parents and children in selected picturebooks, as well as to establish how these two perspectives are used to convey a story in cooperation. In order to identify specific perspectives, this thesis draws on the theory of narratology, Genette’s categories of narrative perspectives and types of narrators, as well as theories of visual and verbal narration in picturebook discourses. The thesis adopts the theory of two picturebook narrators – the verbal and the visual – demonstrating how the narrator of each discourse chooses to present the story. The analysis shows that, in order to present a child’s or a parent’s perspective, authors of contemporary picturebooks combine different types of narrative perspectives and types of narrators in both discourses. The heterodiegetic narrator – whether visual or verbal – is often focalized through a specific character at some points in the narrative. In order to present a character’s state of mind, the authors are likely to use visual clues rather than verbally describe how that character feels. The topic of the relationship between parents and children is presented in each of the analysed picturebook: in some picturebooks, the focus is either on the child or the parent, while others establish a balance of both perspectives.

Abstract (croatian)

Jedna od važnijih karakteristika slikovnice jest ta da njenu jedinstvenu priču tvori dvostruki vizualno-verbalni diskurs. Predmet su ovoga diplomskoga rada suvremene pripovjedne slikovnice istaknutih autora, točnije, dječja i roditeljska perspektiva u tim slikovnicama i način posredovanja priče dvjema perspektivama. Analiza slikovnica oslanja se na teoriju pripovjedi, Genetteove kategorije pripovjednih perspektiva i tipova pripovjedača, kao i teoriju o slikovnom i jezičnom pripovjedaču u kombiniranom diskursu slikovnice. Cilj je rada odrediti na koji način pripovjedači pojedinih diskursa predstavljaju priču unutar njihovih (verbalnih i vizualnih) medija. Analize slikovnica su pokazale da se autori koriste različitim kombinacijama pripovjednih perspektiva i tipova pripovjedača kako bi prikazali dječju i roditeljsku perspektivu. Primjerice, kad vizualni pripovjedač posreduje priču putem unutarnje fokalizacije, verbalni je pripovjedač često nefokaliziran, ali i obrnuto. Također, ako dominira heterodijegetički pripovjedač, bilo u vizualnom ili u verbalnom diskursu, često je diskurs fokaliziran kroz određeni lik. Unutarnje osjećaje likova autori radije predstavljaju različitim slikovnim porukama, odnosno putem vizualnoga pripovjedača, nego verbalnim opisivanjem. Tema odnosa roditelja i djeteta prisutna je u svakoj analiziranoj slikovnici, bilo putem perspektive djeteta ili perspektive roditelja, dok su u pojedinim slikovnicama obje perspektive podjednako prisutne.

• Keywords: child; narratology; parent; perspective; picturebook
• Keywords (croatian): dijete; naratologija; perspektiva; roditelj; slikovnica
• Language: english
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:147:876365
• Study programme: Title: Integrated Undergraduate and Graduate University Programme of Study of Primary Teacher Education and Integrated Undergraduate and Graduate University Programme of Study for Primary Teacher Education with English and German Language; Study programme type: university; Study level: integrated undergraduate and graduate; Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra primarnog obrazovanja (magistar/magistra primarnog obrazovanja)
• Type of resource: Text
• File origin: Born digital
• Access conditions: Open access
• Created on: 2020-07-24 07:27:40