Robert Levy (Anas Nin at the Grand Guignol) Daniel Braum (The Serpents Shadow).

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. Michael Cisco (The Narrator) Clay McLeod Chapman (The Remaking). The Narrator 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 non-communicational theories of fictional narrative. Clarifying the notion of the narrator requires a historical and epistemological approach focused on the opposition between communicational theories of narrative in general and non-communicational or poetic theories of the fictional narrative in particular. Michael Cisco, The Narrator (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2010)Every modern (along with many ancient) war on the planet has produced a definitive novel-The. Do all fictional narratives have a narrator, or only some of them? Can narratives thus be 'narrator-less'? This question divides communicational theories (based on the communication between real or fictional narrator and narratee) and non-communicational or poetic theories (which aim to rehabilitate the function of the author as the creator of the fictional narrative). for the romantics among us, a faceless narrator decomposing at the morgue. Ciscos The Narrator expertly captures the absurdity of war, with its often pointless and wanton bloodshed, and the egotistical desires of the powers that be.

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. Think Michael Marshalls THE STRAW MEN meets FRINGE but highly original in.

The Narrator by Michael Cisco