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Optional-narrator theory : principles, perspectives, proposals
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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 parti...
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.
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- Creator
- edited by Sylvie Patron
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
- ©2021
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (ix, 303 pages)
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- ISBNs
- 1496224523, 9781496224507, 9781496224521, 1496224507, 9781496223371, 1496223373
- OCLC
- on1225977175
- 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