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The narrator : a problem in narrative theory

Sylvie Patron (Author), Catherine Porter (Translator)
"The narrator (the answer to the question 'who speaks in the text?') is a commonly used notion in teaching literature and in literary criticism, even though it is the object of an ongoing debate in narrative theory. Do all fictional narratives have a narrator, or only some of them? Can narratives thus be 'narratorless'? This question divides communicational theories (based on the communication between real or fictional narrator and narratee) and noncommunicational or poetic theories (which aim to rehabilitate the function of the author as the creator of the fictional narrative)"-- Provided by publisher

eBook, English, 2023
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2023