ACCTG 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Aphra Behn, Anachronism, Oroonoko
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Literary studies v prose 1: model of narrative communication, discourse (vs. story) Seminar session 5: analysing narrative situations and focalization. Extratextual level of communication: communication between real author and real reader. Level of narrative transmission: a heterodiegetic implied narrator (who stands outside the story world) addresses an implied reader or audience. This gentleman had in his youth married a very worthy and beautiful woman, of whom he had been extremely fond: by her he had three children, all of whom died in their infancy. He had likewise had the misfortune of burying this beloved wife herself, about five years before the time in which this history chuses to set out. This loss, however great, he bore like a man of sense and constancy. Level of narrative transmission: a homodiegetic narrator (who is part of the story world) addresses a homodiegetic reader or audience.
