..., Reflector, Informant; 2.2.2 Author vs. Narrator, Narrator vs. Nonnarrator: Distinctions Compared and Correlated; 2.3 Do Narrators Act, Reliably or Otherwise? Narrating-I vs. Experiencing-I; 2.3.1 “Speaks or Acts”?; 2.3.2 Other Variations on the Enacted Narrator: A Brief Comparison of Oddities; 2.3.3...

...), discussed in chapter 5. In this novel, the village we keeps making brief one-sentence appearances in longer passages in which the story is presented from the reflectoral perspective of Noria or Toloki. This combination of internal focalization (reflector mode narrative in Stanzel's paradigm) and communal...

... of the Unnatural: Instances of Expanded Consciousness in ‘Omniscient’ Narration and Reflector-Mode Narratives ,” Zeitschrifi für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 61 , no. 2 : 137 – 53 . Alber Jan 2016 Unnatural Narrative: Impossible Worlds in Fiction and Drama ( Lincoln : University of Nebraska...

... References Abbott H. Porter . 2013 Real Mysteries. Narrative and the Unknowable ( Columbus : Ohio State University Press ). Alber Jan 2013 “ Pre-postmodernist Manifestations of the Unnatural: Instances of Expanded Consciousness in ‘Omniscient’ Narration and Reflector-Mode Narratives...

... , no. 1 : 79 – 96 . Alber Jan 2013 “ Pre-postmodernist Manifestations of the Unnatural: Instances of Expanded Consciousness in ‘Omniscient’ Narration and Reflector-Mode Narratives ,” Zeitschrift fürAnglistik und Amerikanistik 61 , no. 2 : 137 – 53 . Alber Jan 2016 Unnatural...

... whose thoughts are presented is a reflector, in Stanzel’s (1985: 271, 287) terms, and though reflector passages are indeed nonnarrative in the above sense, it is only a matter of ‘‘Illusion der Unmittelbarkeit’’ (ibid.: 16). 4. Cf. also Neumann 1990: 68–69 on reasons why this novel cannot be regarded...

... further asunder as we move from the nov- elist to a superknowing teller or reflector to a part-knower of the kind that Culler so desires (26). An inerrant weather predictor, for example, cannot yet hasten or delay the event itself, but must wait, like the rest of us, for his prediction to come...

... also indicates how it might be related to such narratological categories and devices as reflectorization (Stanzel’s Personalisierung), free indirect dis- course, or second-person narrative; and she more than suggests that it is narratologically crucial rather than marginal. 1. Gérard Genette (2004...

...- cation frame centered round the author, who secretly manipulates the spea- ker (or reflector) for his own purposes. These two faces are separable only in theory, if at all, rather than in the actual reading process. For the reliability judgment performed by the reader is nothing but a hypothesis about...

... into the narrative world, as does the more “traditional” type. Further, the textual phenomena she discusses are strongly related to those already studied by, for example, Franz Stanzel in A Theory of Narrative (1984), as typical of the “reflector-­mode,” under the term “etic” opening, namely, one that treats...

... of the “reflector-­mode,” under the term “etic” opening, namely, one that treats elements of the fictional world as given or known, and therefore in no need of being introduced to the reader. Several of the other essays consider “beginnings” from a thematic, spe- cifically postcolonial viewpoint...

... orderly and comfortable fashion into the narrative world, as does the more “traditional” type. Further, the textual phenomena she discusses are strongly related to those already studied by, for example, Franz Stanzel in A Theory of Narrative (1984), as typical of the “reflector-­mode,” under...

..., The Ambassadors, Ulysses , translated by James P. Pusack (Bloomington: Indiana University Press). 1979 Theorie des Erzählens (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck &Ruprecht). 1981 “Teller-Characters and Reflector-Characters in Narrative Theory,” Poetics Today 2 (2): 5 -15. 1984 A Theory of Narrative...

... of inference, with its mimet- ic product — subject, (re)teller, reflector — is often the aesthetic point of the whole device. Here, the aesthetic point of the mimetically directed quest consists in nothing other than estrangement, and would therefore disarm Shklovsky himself. The means-end linkage between...

... disguise “insofar as he speaks in the first person,” yet he or she can appear in various forms, including as the protagonist, as the author himself, or as a wholly invented author figure. The sifting agent is more or less the equivalent of what narratologists call the focalizer or the reflector figure...

... , ed. 2013 “ Red herring ,” in Oxford English Dictionary ( Oxford : Oxford University Press ), www.oed.com . Stanzel Franz K. 1981 “ Teller-Characters and Reflector-Characters in Narrative Theory ,” Poetics Today 2 ( 2 ): 5 – 15 . 1984 A Theory of Narrative , translated...

... associated with narrative point of view (if anything, all too mechanically) comes first. Ever since Wayne Booth focused the concept, un)reliability’’ has been accepted by most scholars as a character-trait that attaches to the figure of the narrator (or reflector, hence all speaking/thinking subjects...

... an empathetic pro- jection of the reader into the figure of an observer ‘on the scene’” (Fluder- nik 1996: 198). The place normally occupied by a perceiving conscious- ness (a reflector character or focalizer) is, in the case of figuralization, left empty. But this blank space, foregrounded...

... the term, or rather the distinction between “cognizant” and “uncogni- zant,” from Meir Sternberg’s “Self-Consciousness as a Narrative Feature and Force” (2005), which makes a significant and nuanced distinction between “self-conscious” narrators/tellers and “unself-conscious” reflectors/informants...

... in love with her. Her father was dying there, Mrs. Ramsay knew. See Sternberg b, esp. e.g., 220 Poetics Today 22:1 All as true for Woolf as for her reflectors. In short, where the presupposed complement is judged false to the frame, we hypothesize free indirect dis- course...