The Relationship between the Narrator and the Audience Events and Characters in Fiction

Document Type : scientific-research

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1 Assistant Professor in Persian Language and Literature, Razi University of Kermanshah

2 Ph.D. student in Persian Language and Literature, Imam Khomeini International University of Qazvin

Abstract

There are different distances between the narrator of events, characters and the audience in different literary works, and these distances may be in the aspects of time, physical intellectual, emotional or moral attendance. For instance, the narrator of “The Sound and the Fury” is undoubtedly smarter than Bnjy. Whatever the story moves forward in Jalal Al-e Ahmad’s "Someone else's child”, the listener (audience) opposes the narrator (who is a woman), or in the story of Joseph the Prophet, He is more pious than his brothers. The authors of present paper have tried to show their understanding of the nature of the relation between the narrator and the audience, events and characters in fiction integrating the concepts and ideas discussed in the cognitive and linguistic approaches through an analytic-descriptive method and using the library resources in a restricted (but minute) list of Persian and non-Persian works.  The results show that there are outstanding differences, from different aspects, between the narrator, events, and characters from the perspective of narratology.

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Journal of Literary Criticism and Rhetoric
Volume 3, Issue 2 - Serial Number 6
February 2015
Pages 37-55

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  • Receive Date: 13 July 2014
  • Accept Date: 08 February 2015

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