Narrators and Focalizers
The Presentation of the Story in the Iliad
Author
Paperback – Out of print
ISBN 9789060323038
[Not in series - Grüner, 138] 1987. xvi, 317 pp.
Publishing status: Out of print | Original publisher:B.R. Grüner Publishing Company
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Prelim pages | pp. i–iv
- 0. Introduction | pp. ix–xvi
- Glossary | pp. xiv–xvi
- Acknowledgements | pp. –0
- 1. The presentation of the story in the Iliad: the state of the art | pp. 1–
- 1.1. Antiquity
- 1.2. Modern times
- 1.3. Conclusions
- 2. A narratological model of analysis | pp. 29–
- 2.1. Narrator and point of view
- 2.2. Presentation: narration and focalization
- 2.3. Narrative situations
- 3. Simple narrator-text | pp. 41–
- 3.1. The primary narrator-focalizer
- 3.2. The primary narratee-focalizee
- 3.3. Interaction between primary narrator-focalizer and primary narratee-focalizee
- 3.4. Summary
- 4. Complex narrator-text (embedded focalization) | pp. 101–
- 4.1. Explicit and implicit embedded focalization
- 4.2. Assimilated comparisons and similes
- 4.3. Evaluative and affective words/expressions in the narrator-text
- 4.4. Summary
- 5. Character-text (speeches) | pp. 149–
- 5.1. Different speakers referring to the same event
- 5.2. External analepses told by characters
- 5.3. Embedded speech
- 5.4. Repeated speech
- 5.5. Summary
- 6. The relation of narrator-text (simple and complex) and character-text | pp. 195–
- 6.1. Speech-formulas as attributive discourse
- 6.2. Narrator-text and character-text confronted
- 6.3. Summary
- 7. Conclusion: Narrators and focalizers | pp. 221–
- Appendices I-V | pp. 231–
- Notes | pp. 247–
- | pp. 291–
- Index of subjects | pp. 307–
- Index of passages | pp. 310–317