ENGB03H3 Lecture Notes - Italo Calvino, Narration, Unreliable Narrator
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A third person narrator is not always omniscient. An unreliable narrator is not always first person. Take 2 of the 4 passages and close reading on narrator. Do: take a look at the following picture . don"t tell the story just think about who the narrator is. Ask about conversation between lydgate and that guy concerning. A narrative for our purpose is a work of fiction. There are multiple viewpoints in a narrative (character, narrator, author, the implied reader ) implied reader of middlemarch: mid 1900 middle class educated reader. These viewpoints often clash and none of them will necessarily line up with your viewpoint. Diverge is where we start to see what the narrator is really about and what it means. Watch for when the ideas don"t stand up. Notable exception: if on a winter"s night a traveler by italo calvino (1979) Make us think about who exactly is the you? who is the implied reader.
