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Adolphe andhero of our time: The problem of first person narration

Neohelicon, 1982
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First-Person Allegory and the Concept of the Unreliable Narrator

2022
This essay attempts to elucidate the link between allegorical self-(mis)representation, self-irony, and didactic purpose in texts such as the Roman de la Rose, or the Voir Dit. In those texts there is often a skillfully established mismatch between the authors’ self-representation (which is often that of a learned, elderly clerk) and a theme such as ...
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Focalization and the First-Person Narrator: A Revision of the Theory

Poetics Today, 1989
Ever since Gerard Genette coined the term in 1972, the concept of focalization has been the subject of a great deal of debate, some of which has appeared within the pages of Poetics Today. Focalization is defined by Genette as a restriction imposed on the information provided by a narrator about his characters.
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The First-Person Narrator

1994
‘La Recherche du temps perdu, en fait, est une recherche de la verite.’1 The same applies to A Dance to the Music of Time (1951–75), a semiological novel whose primary allegiance is also to truth. ‘All men by nature desire to know’,2 contended Aristotle.
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The Confiding First-Person Narrator

2011
The first stories published by Alice Munro (as Alice Laidlaw) appeared in Folio, the magazine of the University of Western Ontario, in 1950 and 1951. They are written from an omniscient narrative perspective and their subject matter is not entirely within the writer’s experience.1 The story “At The Other Place,” published in the Canadian Forum in ...
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The camera eye as first-person narrator in Natan

Short Film Studies, 2012
The camera's presence is obvious throughout Natan. Its apparent clumsiness, exemplified by a series of rough or tilted close-ups and low-angle shots, is a means of rendering the main character's marginal personality. Only at the end does it stand at a clear distance, signifying Natan's new-found stability.
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Mistaken Identities: First-Person Narration in Kazuo Ishiguro

Journal of Narrative and Life History, 1993
Abstract Contemporary theorists tend to agree on the death of the subject and therefore, it seems, on the death of the first-person realistic novel. Novels likeDavid CopperfieldandJane Eyreseem like extended metaphors for humanism itself-the outmoded view that human beings are the center of their world, that they can know themselves, that their ...
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First-Person Narration and the Poetics of Theophany in the Deuteronomic Horeb Account

The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 2023
Abstract: In recent years, scholars of the Hebrew Bible have increasingly challenged entrenched dichotomies between historical criticism and literary theory. This integrative approach draws on contemporary literary studies to achieve a fuller understanding of biblical texts as fictive works in their ancient historical contexts.
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Tenses in translation: Benveniste’s ‘discourse’ and ‘historical narration’ in the first-person novel

Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics, 2014
This article deals with Emile Benveniste’s theory of enunciation (see ‘Subjectivity in Language’ and ‘The Correlations of Tense in the French Verb’ in Problems in General Linguistics, 1971 [1966] and ‘L’appareil formel de l’énonciation’ in Problèmes de linguistique générale, tome 2, 1970), in particular his distinction between historical narration and
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Defining the reliable narrator: The marked status of first-person fiction

jlse, 2012
Abstract In The Rhetoric of Fiction (1961), Wayne Booth first proposed the critical concepts of the reliable and unreliable narrator. Booth suggested that the notion of reliability was best defined in terms of its underlying relationship to the implied author.
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