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By considering events, characters, and images, Nodelman describes ways in which the alternating narratives in novels for young readers act as variations—different but related versions of each other. Some novels represent different but related characters as something like case studies, representations of specific forms of a larger category. A consideration of variational form also reveals the coherence of some novels with alternating narratives that seem to lack it.
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Nodelman, P. (2017). Alternating Narratives as Variations of Each Other. In: Alternating Narratives in Fiction for Young Readers. Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50817-7_6
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