The Return of the Omniscient Narrator : Authorship and Authority in Twenty-First Century Fiction / Paul Dawson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Theory and interpretation of narrative | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, 2013Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2014Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (312 pages)Content type:
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  • 9780814271209
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Contents:
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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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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