{"product_id":"optionalnarrator-theory-9781496223371","title":"OptionalNarrator Theory","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwentieth-century narratology fostered the assumption, which distinguishes narratology from previous narrative theories, that all narratives have a narrator. Since the first formulations of this assumption, however, voices have come forward to denounce oversimplifications and dangerous confusions of issues. \u003ci\u003eOptional-Narrator Theory\u003c\/i\u003e is the first collection of essays to focus exclusively on the narrator from the perspective of optional-narrator theories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sylvie Patron is a prominent advocate of optional-narrator theories, and her collection boasts essays by many prominent scholars—including Jonathan Culler and John Brenkman—and covers a breadth of genres, from biblical narrative to poetry to comics. This volume bolsters the dialogue among optional-narrator and pan-narrator theorists across multiple fields of research. These essays make a strong intervention in narratology, pushing back against the widespread belief among narrative theorists in general and t\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is a strong contribution to a centrally important concept of narrative theory. The essays provide quite rich and varied reasons to question the assumption that every narrative has a narrator, and Sylvie Patron gives a detailed account of the background to this debate in her introduction. Her account is clear, thorough, indeed magisterial.”—Ann Banfield, author of \u003ci\u003eUnspeakable Sentences: Narration and Representation in the Language of Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Sylvie Patron\u003cbr\u003e Part 1. Optional-Narrator Theory in Literary Studies\u003cbr\u003e 1. Some Problems concerning Narrators of Novels and Speakers of Poems\u003cbr\u003e Jonathan Culler\u003cbr\u003e 2. Implied Authors and Imposed Narrators—or Actual Authors?\u003cbr\u003e Brian Boyd\u003cbr\u003e 3. Real Authors, Real Narrators, and the Rhetoric of Fiction\u003cbr\u003e Vincenz Pieper\u003cbr\u003e 4. Voice and Time\u003cbr\u003e John Brenkman\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Narrator: A Historical and Epistemological Approach to Narrative Theory\u003cbr\u003e Sylvie Patron\u003cbr\u003e 6. Biblical Narrative and the Death of the Narrator\u003cbr\u003e Robert S. Kawashima\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Narrator in Biblical Narratives\u003cbr\u003e Greger Andersson\u003cbr\u003e 8. Narrator Theory and Medieval English Narratives\u003cbr\u003e A. C. Spearing\u003cbr\u003e 9. Marquis de Sade’s Narrative Despotism: \u003ci\u003eThe Mystified Magistrate\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Misfortunes of Virtue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Marc Hersant\u003cbr\u003e Part 2. Optional-Narrator Theory before and beyond Literature\u003cbr\u003e 10. Silent Self and the Deictic Imaginary: Hamburger’s Radical Insight\u003cbr\u003e Mary Galbraith\u003cbr\u003e 11. Aesthetic Theory Meets Optional-Narrator Theory\u003cbr\u003e Lars-Åke Skalin\u003cbr\u003e 12. The Vanishing Narrator Meets the Fundamental Narrator: On the Literary Historical and Transmedial Limitations of the Narrator Concept\u003cbr\u003e Kai Mikkonen\u003cbr\u003e 13. A Paradox of Cinematic Narration\u003cbr\u003e Paisley Livingston\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409233584471,"sku":"9781496223371","price":48.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496223371.jpg?v=1730506069","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/optionalnarrator-theory-9781496223371","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}