Leaving Jacob Room: Narratorial Humility in Jacob’s Room
| Autor: | Le Brun, Xavier |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Popis: | This paper looks at narration in Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room as a humble renouncement to narratorial knowledge. Even though the narrative voice in Jacob’s Room is omniscient, as is demonstrated repeatedly throughout the novel, Woolf’s characterisation of the different individuals it depicts—and especially of the centre-character Jacob Flanders—often involves the issue of the unknowable. By artificially drawing a limit to its knowledge of Jacob the narrative voice engages into an ethics of humility. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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