Chapter III: The Problem of Omniscience
Colin Riordan
From The Ethics of Narration: Uwe Johnson's Novels from Ingrid Babendererde to Jahrestage (1989), pp. 31-54, doi:10.59860/td.c48fe4c
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| Part of the book: The Ethics of Narration Colin Riordan MHRA Texts and Dissertations 28 Bithell Series of Dissertations 14 Modern Humanities Research Association for the Institute of Germanic Studies Abstract. The assumption of limited narrative cognizance in Mutmaßungen über Jakob, whereby the narrator is taken to be as limited in his perceptions of the events portrayed as any of the participants, has become something of a commonplace wisdom in Johnsonian critical literature, one which is frequently incorporated into an examination of some other aspect of the author's work. Full text. This contribution is published as Open Access and can be downloaded as a PDF, or viewed as a PDF in your web browser, here: |
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