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Page 38
... narrator . And although Robbe - Grillet radically rearranges the time - sequence , and totally dissolves conventional narration - in ways that owe an immense amount to the methods of the cinema the story moves forward with a finely ...
... narrator . And although Robbe - Grillet radically rearranges the time - sequence , and totally dissolves conventional narration - in ways that owe an immense amount to the methods of the cinema the story moves forward with a finely ...
Page 139
... narration falls into two kinds . In one , the narrator is no more than a detached observer who records the events taking place around him and keeps his own personality as unobtrusive as possible : a good example is the ' camera eye ' of ...
... narration falls into two kinds . In one , the narrator is no more than a detached observer who records the events taking place around him and keeps his own personality as unobtrusive as possible : a good example is the ' camera eye ' of ...
Page 193
... narrators and authors ; what I am saying is that the distance between the actual author and his implied narrator is liable , in early novels , to fluctuate consider- ably , and at times to dwindle to zero . When that happens , assump ...
... narrators and authors ; what I am saying is that the distance between the actual author and his implied narrator is liable , in early novels , to fluctuate consider- ably , and at times to dwindle to zero . When that happens , assump ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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