Point of view in first-person narratives: a deictic analysis of David Copperfield.(Critical essay): An article from: Style
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Author(s)Massimiliano Morini
PublisherNorthern Illinois University
ISBN / ASINB008HAR9CC
ISBN-13978B008HAR9C5
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From the author: First-person narratives, in stylistics, are held to be straightforward as regards point of view: since everything is seen from the narrator's perspective, no need is felt for further qualifications and distinctions. However, most evidently when the narrator is also the central character in his/her story, there can be a lot of shuttling to and fro between his/her outlook on things right now, in his/her own coding time, and his/her outlook back then, when he/she was a character. Drawing on a number of narratological studies on the divided consciousness of homodiegetic narrative, Morini's article applies the tools of deictic shift theory to a chapter of David Copperfield, and shows how many of Dickens' comic effects and moralistic conclusions depend on various kinds of subtle shifts between the "I-narrator's" and the "I-reflector's" deictic planes.
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Title: Point of view in first-person narratives: a deictic analysis of David Copperfield.(Critical essay)
Author: Massimiliano Morini
Publication:Style (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 22, 2011
Publisher: Northern Illinois University
Volume: 45 Issue: 4 Page: 598(22)
Article Type: Critical essay
Distributed by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning
From the author: First-person narratives, in stylistics, are held to be straightforward as regards point of view: since everything is seen from the narrator's perspective, no need is felt for further qualifications and distinctions. However, most evidently when the narrator is also the central character in his/her story, there can be a lot of shuttling to and fro between his/her outlook on things right now, in his/her own coding time, and his/her outlook back then, when he/she was a character. Drawing on a number of narratological studies on the divided consciousness of homodiegetic narrative, Morini's article applies the tools of deictic shift theory to a chapter of David Copperfield, and shows how many of Dickens' comic effects and moralistic conclusions depend on various kinds of subtle shifts between the "I-narrator's" and the "I-reflector's" deictic planes.
Citation Details
Title: Point of view in first-person narratives: a deictic analysis of David Copperfield.(Critical essay)
Author: Massimiliano Morini
Publication:Style (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 22, 2011
Publisher: Northern Illinois University
Volume: 45 Issue: 4 Page: 598(22)
Article Type: Critical essay
Distributed by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning
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