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The return of the omniscient narrator authorship and authority in twenty-first century fiction

Dawson, Paul, 1972-

The return of the omniscient narrator authorship and authority in twenty-first century fiction [electronic resource] / Paul Dawson. - Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - Theory and interpretation of narrative . - Theory and interpretation of narrative series. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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


Electronic books.

PN3355 / .D246 2013

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