{"product_id":"the-narrator-sylvie-patron-9781496231406","title":"The Narrator: A Problem in Narrative Theory","description":"The narrator (the answer to the question \"who speaks in the text?\") is a commonly used notion in teaching literature and in literary criticism, even though it is the object of an ongoing debate in narrative theory. Do all fictional narratives have a narrator, or only some of them? Can narratives thus be \"narratorless\"? This question divides \u003ci\u003ecommunicational\u003c\/i\u003e theories (based on the communication between real or fictional narrator and narratee) and \u003ci\u003enoncommunicational\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003epoetic\u003c\/i\u003e theories (which aim to rehabilitate the function of the author as the creator of the fictional narrative). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Clarifying the notion of the narrator requires a historical and epistemological approach focused on the opposition between communicational theories of narrative in general and noncommunicational or poetic theories of the fictional narrative in particular. \u003ci\u003eThe Narrator\u003c\/i\u003e offers an original and critical synthesis of the problem of the narrator in the work of narratologists and other theoreticians of narrative communication from the French, Czech, German, and American traditions and in representations of the noncommunicational theories of fictional narrative. Sylvie Patron provides linguistic and pragmatic tools for interrogating the concept of the narrator based on the idea that fictional narrative has the power to signal, by specific linguistic marks, that the reader must construct a narrator; when these marks are missing, the reader is able to perceive other forms and other narrative effects, specially sought after by certain authors. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sylvie Patron\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496231406\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496231406\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 386\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2024","brand":"Sylvie Patron","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45477255971071,"sku":"9781496231406","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a045ad60-b598-4b13-85db-1e595979677c.jpg?v=1715919490","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-narrator-sylvie-patron-9781496231406","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}