The Return of the Omniscient Narrator
Dawson, Paul, 1972-
The Return of the Omniscient Narrator Authorship and Authority in Twenty-First Century Fiction / Paul Dawson. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - Theory and interpretation of narrative . - Theory and interpretation of narrative series. Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The return of omniscience in contemporary fiction -- Omniscience and narrative authority -- The direct address and the ironic moralist -- Prolepsis and the literary historian -- Style and the pyrotechnic storyteller -- Polymathic knowledge, the immersion journalist, and the social commentator -- Voice and free indirect discourse in contemporary omniscient narration -- Paralepsis and omniscient character narration -- Real authors and real readers : a discursive approach to the narrative communication model -- Conclusion.
Open Access
9780814271209 0814271200
Narration (Rhetoric)
Omniscience (Theory of knowledge) in literature.
Fiction--Technique.
Electronic books.
PN3355 / .D246 2013
808.3
The Return of the Omniscient Narrator Authorship and Authority in Twenty-First Century Fiction / Paul Dawson. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - Theory and interpretation of narrative . - Theory and interpretation of narrative series. Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The return of omniscience in contemporary fiction -- Omniscience and narrative authority -- The direct address and the ironic moralist -- Prolepsis and the literary historian -- Style and the pyrotechnic storyteller -- Polymathic knowledge, the immersion journalist, and the social commentator -- Voice and free indirect discourse in contemporary omniscient narration -- Paralepsis and omniscient character narration -- Real authors and real readers : a discursive approach to the narrative communication model -- Conclusion.
Open Access
9780814271209 0814271200
Narration (Rhetoric)
Omniscience (Theory of knowledge) in literature.
Fiction--Technique.
Electronic books.
PN3355 / .D246 2013
808.3