LLCU 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Narration, Asteroid Family
11 Oct 2016
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Narrator (erz hler): the voice that tells a story. Unless it is an autobiography, the narrator is not identical with the author/writer. Point of view (erz hlperspektive): the perspective from which characters, events, etc. are presen- ted in a fictional text. The chosen point of view has a strong effect on the reader; for example, we tend to respond (reagieren) more sympathetically to a character whose mind we enter , as we experience for ourselves what the character goes through. In the course of many stories the point of view changes to make reading more interesting. First person narrator / limited point of view (ich-erz hler): the narrator is a character in the story and uses the first person singular ( i ). This narrator may be either the protagonist (haupt- person) or a minor character, who is just a kind of observer (neutraler beobachter).
