Against the Ubiquity of Fictional Narrators
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Against the Ubiquity of Fictional Narrators
In this paper I argue against the theory – popular among theorists of narrative artworks – that we must posit a fictional narrative agent in every narrative artwork in order to explain our imaginative engagement with such works. I accept that every narrative must have a narrator, but I argue that in some central literary cases the narrator is not a fictional agent, but rather the actual author ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0021-8529,1540-6245
DOI: 10.1111/j.0021-8529.2005.00180.x