{"product_id":"optional-narrator-theory-2","title":"Optional-Narrator Theory","description":"Twentieth-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. \u003ci\u003eOptional-Narrator Theory\u003c\/i\u003e is the first collection of essays to focus exclusively on the narrator from the perspective of optional-narrator theories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOptional-Narrator Theory\u003c\/i\u003e advances a range of arguments for dispensing with the narrator, except when it can be said that the author actually “created” a fictional narrator.\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Sylvie Patron","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43573204320438,"sku":"9781496224521","price":51.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781496224521_e488b23d-ddf6-4950-8f3f-2de6947af661.jpg?v=1726582095","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/optional-narrator-theory-2","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}