Description
Book SynopsisThe Narrator questions the dominance of the communicational paradigm in the theory and analysis of fictional narratives.
Trade Review“This ground-breaking study situates works that presume that every narrative has a narrator within communicational theories and convincingly argues instead for poetic theories, which maintain that while authors of fiction may create narrators, they are in no way compelled to do so. A major contribution to narrative theory.”—Jonathan Culler, author of
Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics, and the Study of Literature“
The Narrator is an expansive, meticulously researched, and brilliantly argued intervention in narrative theory. Powerful and compelling, its conclusions will have to be engaged with by all future students of narration.”—Brian Richardson, author of
Unnatural Voices: Extreme Narration in Modern and Contemporary FictionTable of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1. Communicational Theories of Narrative: The Narrator in All Narratives
1. Genette: A Primitive Concept
2. Doležel (I): The Theory of Narrative Modes
3. Chatman (I): A Continuum Approach to the Issue of the Narrator
4. Stanzel: The Narrator and the Tripartition of Fictional Narrative
5. Speech Act Theory and Narratology
6. Fludernik, Nünning: The Cognitive Turn of Narratology
Part 2. Poetic Theories of Narrative: The Optional Narrator
7. Toward Another Reading of Hamburger
8. Kuroda: Communicational and Noncommunicational Theories of Language and of Narrative
9. Banfield: The Free Indirect Style at the Core of a Poetic Theory of Narrative
10. Deictic Shift Theory
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Enunciative Narratology: A French Speciality
Appendix 2: Selected Texts on the Narrator
Notes
References
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
