Optional-narrator theory : principles, perspectives, proposals /
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| Imprint: | Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021] ©2021 |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 303 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Frontiers of narrative Frontiers of narrative. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13542741 |
| Summary: | Twentieth-century narratology fostered the assumption, which distinguishes narratology from previous narrative theories, that all narratives have a narrator. Since the first formulations of this assumption, however, voices have come forward to denounce oversimplifications and dangerous confusions of issues. Optional-Narrator Theory is the first collection of essays to focus exclusively on the narrator from the perspective of optional-narrator theories.<br> <br> Sylvie Patron is a prominent advocate of optional-narrator theories, and her collection boasts essays by many prominent scholars--including Jonathan Culler and John Brenkman--and covers a breadth of genres, from biblical narrative to poetry to comics. This volume bolsters the dialogue among optional-narrator and pan-narrator theorists across multiple fields of research. These essays make a strong intervention in 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. This topic is an important one for narrative theory and thus also for literary practice.<br> <br> Optional-Narrator Theory advances a range of arguments for dispensing with the narrator, except when it can be said that the author actually "created" a fictional narrator.<br> |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 303 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781496224521 1496224523 9781496223371 1496223373 |