Authorial Subversion of the First-Person Narrator in Twentieth-Century American Fiction
Description:
American writers of narrative fiction frequently manipulate the words of their narrators in order to convey a significance of which the author and the reader are aware but the narrator is not. By causing the narrator to reveal information unwittingly, the author develops covert themes that are antithetical to those espoused by the narrator. Particularly subject to such subversion is the first-person narrator whose "I" is not to be interpreted as the voice of the author. This study examines how …
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Date:
December 1988
Creator:
Russell, Noel Ray
Partner:
UNT Libraries