TY - BOOK AU - Dawson,Paul ED - Project Muse. TI - The return of the omniscient narrator authorship and authority in twenty-first century fiction T2 - Theory and interpretation of narrative SN - 9780814271209 AV - PN3355 .D246 2013 U1 - 808.3 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Columbus PB - The Ohio State University Press KW - Narration (Rhetoric) KW - Omniscience (Theory of knowledge) in literature KW - Fiction KW - Technique KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780814271209/ ER -