EN 2633 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Oroonoko
16 Mar 2018
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Narrator: a voice or character that tells a story, providing readers with information and insight about characters and incidents in the narrative. A narrator"s perspective and personality greatly affect how a story is told, and thus shape the meaning of the work. Speaking in the first or third person, a narrator may be reliable or unreliable, opinionated or nonjudgmental, a participant in the action or a storyteller outside the action. In either case, readers must determine the narrator"s role in the presentation. Memoir: a record of events; history written from personal knowledge or special sources of information. Memoir-novel: a kind of novel that pretends to be a true autobiography or memoir. Seventeenth-century england witnessed not only the birth of the detailed secular biography but also the birth of biography as a term. Dryden, who first used it in 1683 [oroonoko published in 1688], defined biography as. Travel narrative: a story involving relocation to a new and exotic location.
