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Optional-Narrator Theory : Principles, Perspectives, Proposals /

Optional-Narrator Theory makes a strong intervention in (or against) narratology, pushing back against the widespread belief among narrative theorists in general and theorists of the novel in particular that the presence of a fictional narrator is a defining feature of fictional narratives.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Patron, Sylvie, 1969- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part 1
  • 1. Some Problems concerning Narrators of Novels and Speakers of Poems
  • 2. Implied Authors and Imposed Narrators-or Actual Authors?
  • 3. Real Authors, Real Narrators, and the Rhetoric of Fiction
  • 4. Voice and Time
  • 5. The Narrator
  • 6. Biblical Narrative and the Death of the Narrator
  • 7. The Narrator in Biblical Narratives
  • 8. Narrator Theory and Medieval English Narratives
  • 9. Marquis de Sade's Narrative Despotism
  • Part 2
  • 10. Silent Self and the Deictic Imaginary
  • 11. Aesthetic Theory Meets Optional-Narrator Theory
  • 12. The Vanishing Narrator Meets the Fundamental Narrator
  • 13. A Paradox of Cinematic Narration
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index