The return of the omniscient narrator : authorship and authority in twenty-first century fiction /
Dawson, Paul,1972-author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The return of omniscience in contemporary fiction -- Omniscience and narrative authority -- The direct address and the ironic moralist -- Prolepsis and the literary historian -- Style and the pyrotechnic storyteller -- Polymathic knowledge, the immersion journalist, and the social commentator -- Voice and free indirect discourse in contemporary omniscient narration -- Paralepsis and omniscient character narration -- Real authors and real readers : a discursive approach to the narrative communication model -- Conclusion.
Fiction
Omniscience (Theory of knowledge) in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)