TY - JOUR ID - 67536 TI - From Theory to Practice: The Examination of “The Reader in the Book” in A Handful Of Wheat by Aiden Chambers JO - Research in Contemporary World Literature JA - JOR LA - en SN - 2588-4131 AU - Mirzaee Porkoli, Jafar AD - Assistant Professor in English Department Razi University of Kermanshah Y1 - 2018 PY - 2018 VL - 23 IS - 1 SP - 217 EP - 236 KW - Children’s Literature KW - Aiden Chambers KW - The Reader in the Book KW - “A Handful Of Wheat” KW - The Kissing Game DO - 10.22059/jor.2018.211546.1414 N2 - Aiden Chambers is one of the outstanding critics and writers in Children’s Literature who emphasizes, in his theory “The Reader in the Book,” on the importance of style, point-of-view, taking-sides and tell-tale gaps in examining the works in this field. Recently, Chamber’s approach has opened new doors to the examination of Iranian works in Children’s Literature. The present study aims at reading “A Handful Of Wheat” from his collection, The Kissing Game, on the basis of his theory to identify Chamber’s effective techniqes to create “the reader in the book” and by this practically put his ideas into test. The findings of this research demonstrate that, in this story, Chambers creates an intellegent, curious, critical and imaginative child reader through using the techniqes of structuring the main narrative within a framing narrative, writing disagreement, childlike objectivization, managed shift of tone/voice, double narrative levels, concrete narrative-making, taking sides through creating a double-face narrator, superficial and structural gaps, and an allegorical ending. UR - https://jor.ut.ac.ir/article_67536.html L1 - https://jor.ut.ac.ir/article_67536_e32a711e2abdb560252dee56384421e0.pdf ER -