First-Person Narrative.pptx universidad de barcelona

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1. Postmodernism And First Person Narratives

2. Main characters vs. narrators Focalisation: Gérard Genette : Perspective through which any narrative is presented Internal focalisation Zero focalisation External focalisation Narrators: Heterodiegetic Homodiegetic Extradiegetic Consciousness – Audience & Purpose of Narration Narrator’s unreliability Narrator’s manipulation of narrative Deferring

3. The First Person Narrator and Life Writing Genres From biography and memoir to: AUTOFICTION (Serge Doubrovsky , 1977) FICTIONAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY / AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL (Fictional life writing)

4. The Unreliable Narrator “A narrator who doesn’t work in accordance to the norms of the work . This narrator might fall into contradictions and discrepàncies with itself , and there might be gaps in memory or lies to or about other characters ” Wayne C. Booth , The Rhetoric of Fiction , 1983