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I etcetera: on the poetics and ideology of multipersoned narratives. (Second-Person Narrative)

From: Style  |  Date: 9/22/1994  |  Author: Richardson, Brian

Multipersoned narrative, an increasingly prevalent narrative practice, has not been given the theoretical attention it deserves. A survey of contemporary multipersonal texts, focusing on those that utilize destabilizing second-person narration, reveals four typical strategies: juxtaposition of different voices, the creation of inherently ambiguous narrative stances, the collapsing of apparently different narrators into a single figure, and the construction of logically impossible narrative ...

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