Author and Narrator: Problems in the Constitution and Interpretation of Fictional Narrative

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Author and Narrator: Problems in the Constitution and Interpretation of Fictional Narrative 1
4. Against Pragmatic Arguments for Pan- Narrator Theories: The Case of Hawthorne’s “Rappaccini’s Daughter” 13
5. Narratorless Narration? Some Reflections on the Arguments For and Against the Ubiquity of Narrators in Fictional Narration 45
6. Author and Narrator: Observations on Die Wahlverwandtschaften 81
7. Author, Authority, and ‘Authorial Narration’: The Eighteenth-Century English Novel as a Test Case 99
8. Interpretive Problems with Author, Self- Fashioning, and Narrator: The Controversy Over Christian Kracht’s Novel Imperium 113
9. Fictional Narrators and Creationism 139
10. Speakers and Narrators 153
11. Serious Speech Acts in Fictional Works 187
12. Author and Narrator in Lyric Poetry 213
13. Narrative Mediation in Comics: Narrative Instances and Narrative Levels in Paul Hornschemeier’s The Three Paradoxes 235
14. Narrator and Author: A Selected Bibliography 263
15. Notes on Contributors 269
16. Index 273