Lecture 10. Types of Narration

The entrusted narrative (1st person narrative)

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In contemporary prose, in an effort to make writing more plausible, the writer gives some fictitious character the task of story-telling.
The entrusted narrative can be carried out in the 1st person singular (“The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger, or “The Great Gatsby” by Sc. Fitzgerald ).
The entrusted narrative may also be anonymous. The narrator does not openly claim responsibility for the views but the manner of presentation, the angle of description suggest that the story is told not by the author himself but by some of his characters (E. Hemingway ).

Since the narrator is within the story, he or she may not have knowledge of all the events. For this reason, first-person narrative is often used for detective fiction, so that the reader and narrator uncover the case together. Dr Watson in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories.

“It was a marvelous day in late August and Wimsey’s soul purred within him as he pushed the car along” (the author’s narrative)
“I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods” (entrusted narrative)

DIALOGUE or a conversation between characters (uttered speech) where the personages express their minds. It is one of the most significant forms of the personages’ self-characterization or indirect characterization, when the author eliminates himself from the process.
E.g.:
- Henry, let’s try again!
- Try what? Living here? Speaking polite down to all the old men like you?
(Dialogue)

THE INTERIOR SPEECH OF THE PERSONAGE is widely used in contemporary prose to allow the author to penetrate into the inner world of the character, to witness his thoughts, ideas & views in the making.
Its main form is THE INTERIOR MONOLOGUE, a lengthy piece of the text dealing with one main topic of the character’s thinking, his reminiscences of the past, references to the presence & future.

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