Yusupov Oybek Nematjonovich Ahmedova Nigora Shavkatovna

 
Questions for discussion: 
1. How do you understand the notion of “point of view”? 
2. Enumerate major types of narrative. What is the authors narrative? 
3. What types of the narrator do you know? Why is the third-person impersonal 
auctorial narrator called omniscient? What is the limited omniscient point of 
view of the entrusted narrative? 
4. Speak on different degrees of personification of the 1-narrator. What is speech 
individualisation? 
5. Say some words about the use of “dramatic” point of view in modern fiction. 
 
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2. Narrative – compositional forms 
There is one more issue to be discussed in this respect. Apart from the 
viewpoint that commands the overall text organization, the semantics of the text can 
be analysed in terms of 
the traditional narrative-compositional forms
studied in 
poetics and stylistics. Being heterogeneous in its narrative-compositional structure, 
the author’s narrative falls out into at least three (or four, according to some scholars, 
see [48]) subgroups. Thus it may take the form of 
narration about events
(or 
narrative proper [47: 103]), 
description 
and 
argumentation
; the last may be 
subdivided into the so-called expository writing (or reasoning) and lyrical digressions. 
The narrative proper
is dynamic, while description and argumentation are static 
compositional forms of the text. It is explained by the fact that an orderly account of 
events in a story is given in the narrative proper, special emphasis here being laid on 
predicates. The statements “come in consecutive order, one arising from the other thus 
forming the chain of the plot. The correlation of tenses and time/place references 
comes to the fore” [54: 168]. Depending upon what is described - a particular 
occasion at some single moment, or some events occurring over an extended period of 
time, a distinction is drawn in the theory of literature between the scenic and 
panoramic narratives .One more type, the so-called “dynamic” description is a blend 
of narrative and description which depicts a simultaneous concourse of action as well 
as the state of things [ibid., p. 175].