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In this chapter, Nodelman focuses on novels that expand the range of alternating narratives to include a range of real or invented items—newspaper clippings, memos, advertisements, homework assignments, etc.—and thus represent a fictional equivalent to what is identified as collage in visual art. As well as considering how epigraphs at the beginning of sections and chapters relate to the narratives that follow them, the chapter describes the archival effects of novels that alternate narratives about characters with ones representing other documents.
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Nodelman, P. (2017). Fictional Collage as Alternating Narratives. 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_4
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