ENGL 2920 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Unreliable Narrator

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 2920
• Professor: Shyam Selvadurai

Document Summary

Character: first person, central narrator (lyrical), peripheral narrator (pedestal) Experimental form used by a few writers. You is used to address the reader directly or the author addresses a character in the story. * if you could buckle your bugs bunny wristwatch to a ray of light your watch would continue ticking but its hands wouldn"t move you hitchhike. To whom: most often it"s the reader. Most stories do not address themselves to a segment of humanity and don"t assume any difference between author and reader. Most author"s are addressing someone who can be brought around to the same understanding of the story that the author has. *assumes the reader is familiar with the conventions of the genre. *writer might address the reader but assign that reader specific traits that we, the actual reader must accept as our own, if we are to accept the fiction. i. e you gentle reader .