The return of the omniscient narrator : authorship and authority in twenty-first century fiction
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The return of the omniscient narrator : authorship and authority in twenty-first century fiction
（The theory and interpretation of narrative series）
The Ohio State University Press, c2013
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-266) and index
Contents of Works
- 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