{"product_id":"9781496223371","title":"Optional-Narrator Theory : Principles, Perspectives, Proposals (Frontiers of Narrative)","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwentieth-century narratology fostered the assumption, which distinguishes narratology from previous narrative theories, that all narratives have a narrator. Since the first formulations of this assumption, however, voices have come forward to denounce oversimplifications and dangerous confusions of issues. Optional-Narrator Theory is the first collection of essays to focus exclusively on the narrator from the perspective of optional-narrator theories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Sylvie Patron is a prominent advocate of optional-narrator theories, and her collection boasts essays by many prominent scholars-including Jonathan Culler and John Brenkman-and covers a breadth of genres, from biblical narrative to poetry to comics. This volume bolsters the dialogue among optional-narrator and pan-narrator theorists across multiple fields of research. These essays make a strong intervention in narratology, pushing back against the widespread belief among narrative theorists in general and theorists of the novel in particular that the presence of a fictional narrator is a defining feature of fictional narratives. This topic is an important one for narrative theory and thus also for literary practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOptional-Narrator Theory advances a range of arguments for dispensing with the narrator, except when it can be said that the author actually \"created\" a fictional narrator.\n\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49307397849315,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0764\/3758\/6147\/files\/9781496223371-1.jpg?v=1788389523","url":"https:\/\/usa.kinokuniya.com\/products\/9781496223371","provider":"Books Kinokuniya USA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}