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The choice of narrators , and therefore of the kind of consciousness through which the story is filtered , has an ... There are only two possible modes of narration : direct or objective ones , in which the narrator merely presents ...
The choice of narrators , and therefore of the kind of consciousness through which the story is filtered , has an ... There are only two possible modes of narration : direct or objective ones , in which the narrator merely presents ...
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In omniscient narrations the difference between what the narrator could tell us at any moment and what or when he actually reveals it is always a sure pointer to what the author holds to be important or significant .
In omniscient narrations the difference between what the narrator could tell us at any moment and what or when he actually reveals it is always a sure pointer to what the author holds to be important or significant .
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In other words the normal techniques of characterisation may be employed , on the one hand , or the narrator's character may be deduced from the attitudes and values exhibited as the story is told , on the other . Because the narrator ...
In other words the normal techniques of characterisation may be employed , on the one hand , or the narrator's character may be deduced from the attitudes and values exhibited as the story is told , on the other . Because the narrator ...
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Contents
The Nature of Literature and its Historical Tradition | 1 |
Narrative Fiction and the Printed Word | 39 |
Aesthetic Elements of Narrative Fiction | 48 |
Copyright | |
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