Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart.(Critical Essay)

The Explicator;  March 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Allan Poe's short story The Tell-Tale Heart provides an engaging premise...motivation for that crime. The narrator makes reference to the disease...Poe 303). The actions of the narrator, combined with his insistence...presentation of sexual analogy, the narrator begins [the tale] ...

The narrator as chorus in 'Paradise Lost.'

Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900;  January 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ...Milton's narrator invokes his muse to aid the advent'rous...long gestation, the chorus became the narrator, retaining nevertheless, by conscious...personality and role of a traditional epic narrator. A chorus, as Aristotle says, is one...

Dead or alive: the booby-trapped narrator of Poe's "Masque of the Red...

Studies in Short Fiction;  March 22, 1993 ;     700+ words ...While the narrator of Edgar Allan Poe's The Masque of the...489) Yet as understated as this narrator is, he presents a cryptic puzzle. The...that everyone within the abbey dies. The narrator's survival is therefore paradoxical...

The Functions of the Narrator's Voice In Literature and Film: Forster and...

Literature/Film Quarterly;  July 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......adaptations grapple with the overtly prominent narrator, the expositor, describer, investigator...forms: is the agency of film narrative a narrator; is it useful, even in analyzing novels, to posit a narrator as the source of narration. How these...

Narrator's wit a match for her fragility

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  March 27, 1997 ;     697 words ......precisely what Hecht gives us in her nameless narrator, and in a feat of writerly legerdemain...completely." The world is too much for our narrator. There is so much to worry about, which...on a feeling of going insane." No, our narrator is not going insane; she is merely beset...

Package Deals in Fictional Narrative: The Case of the Narrator's...

Narrative;  May 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......notable examples--partly divest their narrators of re liability, though leaving them...narratology, a major case in point is the narrator's positioning between the reliable and...fictional world (so-called homodiegetic narrators) are alone fallible. By a kindred wide...

From Russia, with love: 'House of Meetings' blames history for narrator's...

Chicago Sun-Times;  January 28, 2007 ;     700+ words ......House of Meetings is told by an unnamed narrator born in 1919 and now in his 80s. A veteran...list of political transgressions. The narrator's half-brother, Lev, a physically slight...separated by a waist "as thin as Panama." The narrator's emotions for Zoya may have struck him...

Some problems with the concept of the narrator in Bortolussi and Dixon's...

Narrative;  October 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......discussion I will concentrate on the narrator, the central concept they consider as...mediating role, especially in fiction, of the narrator. In line with their approach, it is clear...readers must create a representation of the narrator (60), but of even more significance for...

Narrator, author, reader: equivocation in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's...

Narrative;  May 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......articulation, readers of Dictee nearly unanimously speak of a narrator and/or acting subject, and moreover, identify that narrator as Cha. For example, critics have read the narrator of the following passage, which appears early in Dictee, as...

Violence, irony, and laughter: the narrator in The Secret Agent.(Critical...

Conradiana;  March 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ......death, at first glance appear to lift the narrator above the level of human sentiments...unlike Miller, is more aware of the narrator's presence, careful to account for his observations, both ultimately accept the narrator's presentation of violence and death...

narrator

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms;      285 words ...narrator[nă‐ ray ‐ter], one who tells, or...narrative . In modern analysis of fictional narratives, the narrator is the imagined ‘voice’ transmitting the...who may have written other tales with very different narrators) and from the implied author (who does not recount ...

`PLAYS WELL' DOESN'T READ WELL Narrator's cozy, cutesy phrases undercut...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  January 4, 1998 ;     476 words ......revolves around three characters. The narrator, Hartley Mims Jr., is a struggling writer...the novel rests on the voice of its narrator, and therein lies the problem. Despite...fantasy and more of a character study of a narrator in conflict.

NARRATOR OF MYSTERY UNDERMINES READER'S...

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  October 17, 2001 ;     419 words ......class and unobjectionable. In fact, the narrator is a schoolteacher who has only had one...reader's unquestioning belief in the narrator, Walters eliminates the comfort of a...emotional link to the victim and the narrator that results in a consuming sense of...

The Way We Live Now; Observations of a nameless narrator in a new century.

The Washington Post;  November 16, 2003 ;     684 words ......metaphysical misadventure robbed the narrator of her soul, we soon learn that the problem...the leg waxer held up a mirror to the narrator's face. Hecht's hilarious novel features...of any clothes buying." Although the narrator is a staunch Democrat, her young friend...

Limits of the narrator's knowledge in Fielding's Joseph Andrews: a...

Style;  September 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ......observations (161). Although, in principle, narratorial omniscience implies a complete knowledge...in narrative practice most omniscient narrators exhibit and sometimes explicitly thematize...those cases where potentially omniscient narrators openly admit the (alleged) limits of...