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

From: Literature/Film Quarterly | Date: July 1, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

"How do intelligent film adaptations grapple with the overtly prominent narrator, the expositor, describer, investigator of characters' states of mind, commentator, philosopher?" Thus, in Coming to Terms (163), Seymour Chatman poses a question with broad implications for narrative 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 issues are framed will serve either to connect novels and films under an umbrella theory that strengthens the universality of narrative constructs or to separate these ...

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