A STUDY OF LINGUISTIC AND NARRATIVE CHARACTERISTICS IN MODERN PICTUREBOOKS: IRONY AND UNRELIABLE NARRATION IN THE WORKS OF CHRISTIAN VOLTZ AND JON KLASSEN
This paper examines the techniques of irony and unreliable narration in contemporary illustrated children's books, specifically John Klassen's The Hat Trilogy and Christian Voltz's Toujours rien?. Through text-oriented analysis, we study how meaning is created against the backdrop of the tension between text and visual...