The Return of the Omniscient Narrator Authorship and Authority in Twenty-First Century Fiction - Dawson, Paul, 1972-; Project Muse. (2013)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Keywords: Narration (Rhetoric); Omniscience (Theory of knowledge) in literature; Fiction -- Technique; Electronic books