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Article: The narrative mode of 'Caleb Williams': problems and resolutions. (novel by William Godwin)
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- Studies in the Novel
- Article date:
- March 22, 1993
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The inherent limitations of first-person narratives in which the hero recounts his own story have often been described.(1) Character analysis in memoir novels is usually limited both by the narrator's inability to view himself with the detachment of a privileged third-person narrator as well as enter the minds of other characters. As Mrs. Barbauld long ago observed, "what the hero cannot say, the author cannot tell."(2) Or, to quote a more recent critic, "the author using the I-narrator deliberately goes forth to battle with one hand tied behind his back."(3) We know that Dostoevski abandoned his first-person version of Crime and Punishment for the third person(4) and ...
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