The Return of the Omniscient Narrator Authorship and Authority in Twenty-First Century Fiction /
Paul Dawson.
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- 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.
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Narration (Rhetoric) Omniscience (Theory of knowledge) in literature. Fiction--Technique.