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The Immoralist and the Rhetoric of First-Person Narration

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, 1977
Gide's The Immoralist , a short first-person novel written at the beginning of the century, has long been seen as an early example of the unreliable narrator.
John T. Booker
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Neural and Behavioral Evidence for Differential Processing of Narrative Perspective in Novel Reading: An fNIRS Study [PDF]

Behavioral Sciences
Narrative perspective and focalization mode constitute fundamental elements shaping readers’ cognitive and neural responses during novel comprehension. Despite their theoretical importance in narratology, empirical evidence for their distinct processing ...
Lijuan Chen, Xiaodong Xu
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First-Person Documentary Film and Self-Life Narration

Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies, 2019
In lieu of an abstract, here is the first paragraph of this forum contribution: My contribution to this forum on life writing contemplates life narrative practices in documentary film and proposes two theses that also bear relevance for other fields ...
Klaus Rieser
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Does narrative perspective influence readers’ perspective-taking? An empirical study on free indirect discourse, psycho-narration and first-person narration

Glossa, 2017
It is often assumed that narrating a story from the protagonist’s perspective increases the readers’ inclination to take over this perspective. In a questionnaire study, we examined to which degree different textual modes of narration (a) increase the ...
Anke Holler, Susanna Salem, Thomas Weskott   +2 more
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Antropocentričeskoe izmerenie stilâ: (na materiale rasskazov V.V. Nabokova)

Stylistyka, 2020
The principle of anthropocentrism, being the basis of human cognitive activity, detects the subject’s central position in the fictional universum. Possessing verbal fixation the subjects of the fictional text, the Narrator and the Character, interacting ...
Nadežda V. Smirnova
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Between East and West: The Rhetoric of the Self in L2 Student Writing and Implications for the Teaching of Writing [PDF]

Filolog, 2019
This paper discusses problems raised by cultural differences with respect to self-narration and use of the first person in academic writing. Western culture most commonly views events from one’s own perspective (independent self), while Asian cultures ...
Jelena S. Runić
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System of Subjective Deixis Means in B.L. Pasternak’s Early Prose

Научный диалог, 2022
The means and methods of subjective deixis, participating in the organization of the forms of subjective-author's narration is analyzed in the article. Their role in the formation of text interpretation strategies is determined.
S. A. Soloveva
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Forfatterens gjerninger

Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, 2020
The article adresses the literary theoretical issue of unreliable narration in first-person fictional narratives. The theoretical discussion is prefaced by an interpretation of T.S. Eliot’s narrative poem “Journey of the Magi”.
Rolf Gaasland
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“A HANDBOOK FOR WINTER MOSCOW VISITORS” BY NIKOLAI STRAKHOV: POETICS OF SATIRE

Известия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки, 2021
“A Handbook for Winter Moscow Visitors” is an example of late Enlightenment satire. Nikolai Strakhov exposes the vices and follies of high society fops obsessed with fashion and ignoring reason. This is a usual topic of 18th-century satire.
Lev A. Trakhtenberg
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Travelogs of Journeys to Lithuania in Early 15th–19th Century: The Problem of Egodocumentality and Typology

Knygotyra, 2023
The article discusses the egodocumentary travel writing of trips to/inside Lithuania, which is characterised by an autobiographical first-person narration, and examines its origins, development, and dissemination.
Arvydas Pacevičius
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