Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-282) and index.
Contents:
Some problems concerning narrators of novels and speakers of poems / Jonathan Culler -- Implied authors and imposed narrators--or actual authors? / Brian Boyd -- Real authors, real narrators, and the rhetoric of fiction / Vincenz Pieper -- Voice and time / John Brenkman -- The narrator: a historical and epistemological approach to narrative theory / Sylvie Patron -- Biblical narrative and the death of the narrator / Robert S. Kawashima -- The narrator in biblical narratives / Greger Andersson -- Narrator theory and medieval English narratives / A.C. Spearing -- Marquis de Sade's narrative despotism: The Mystified Magistrate and The Misfortunes of Virtue / Marc Hersant -- Silent self and the deictic imaginary: Hamburger's radical insight / Mary Galbraith -- Aesthetic theory meets optional-narrator theory / Lars-Åke Skalin -- The vanishing narrator meets the fundamental narrator: on the literary historical and transmedial limitations of the narrator concept / Kai Mikkonen -- A paradox of cinematic narration / Paisley Livingston.
Summary:
"Optional-Narrator Theory makes a strong intervention in (or against) narratology, pushing back against the widespread belief among narrative theorists in general and theorists of the novel in particular that the presence of a fictional narrator is a defining feature of fictional narratives"-- Provided by publisher.
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