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Author:

Dawson, Paul, 1972-, author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

The Ohio State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

viii, 278 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Fiction--Technique.
Omniscience (Theory of knowledge) in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)

Other Authors:

Phelan, James, editor of series.
Rabinowitz, Peter J., editor of series.
Warhol, Robyn, editor of series.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Series:

Theory and interpretation of narrative

ISBN:

0814212336 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780814212332 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)858610545

LCCN:

2013031509

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)