Reverent Induction: Epistemology and the Romantic Education of the Child Reader in Charles Kingsley’s The Water-Babies (1863) by Laura H. Clarke

“…Through his dialogue with the child listening to the story, the narrator seeks to challenge empirical epistemology and deductive logic, two ways of thinking that Kingsley sees as a threat to reverent induction. …”
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“A medley of voices”, polyphonie et discours rapportés dans Lolita de Nabokov by Yannicke Chupin

“…In spite of the narrator’s permanent control over the texture of his narrative, a final part shows how idioms and strongly-featured voices finally blend, thus accounting for the evolution of the hero’s relation to his environment and to the other characters.…”
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Istoria literaturii române contemporane: o teorie implicită a romanului by Ana-Maria Bănică

“…Therefore, we will discover that Lovinescu’s implicit theory, presented by an inductive endeavor, pleads for an objective novel, with an omniscient, omnipresent narrator, and for characters presented from an unlimited perspective concerning the exterior life, but also the inner life, and voice of the narrator must be without emotional implication.…”
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A impossibilidade de se dizer o indizível: reflexões sobre o duplo na novela “O unicórnio”, de Hilda Hilst by Willian André

“…Echoing Gregor Samsa’s uncanny experience, the novella’s narrator suddenly becomes an awkward, absurd creature. …”
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Escrevendo-se na cidade: ExueoGuia afetivoda periferia, de Marcus Vinicius Faustini by Vinicius Mariano de Carvalho

“…This statement opens quiteprovocative perspectives on the phenomenological conception presentFaustini’s narrative. This paper analyzes how Faustini creates a narrator/actorwho, instead of writing the city, writes himself on it. …”
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Displacement and Articulation Rhetoric in Sa'adi's Golestān by Omer Mohammad Saeed, Parsa Yaghoobi Janbeh saraei

“…In this article, the rhetoric of Golestān or the confrontation of the author-narrator with the listener/reader is classified and interpreted based on the ambiguities of the relationship between the creator of the text in the form of displacement and the significance of linguistic-narrative articulations. …”
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Le Paris d’Hemingway : une question de style by Clara Mallier

“…Finally, in The Sun Also Rises the narrator presents streets, cafés and restaurants as familiar places instead of introducing them for the benefit of the (unknowledgeable) implied reader; this closes the cognitive gap between narrator and reader, thus imparting greater immediacy to the latter’s sense of the city.…”
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Refusing the Referendum: Queer Latino Masculinities and Utopian Citizenship in Justin Torres’ We the Animals by Marion Christina Rohrleitner

“…In doing so, Torres, via his narrator, creates a model of queer Latino masculinity that offers an alternative to assimilationist narratives of “Americanization” and encourages us to imagine a utopian space in which civil and human rights are not tied to a compliance with heteronormative lifestyles.…”
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A literary-historical analysis of Daniel 2: two powers in opposition by M. Nel

“…Lastly, the results of the study are concluded in a narrative synthesis, in terms of the narrator, setting, characters, plot and style. …”
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O narrador e a paisagem: Milton Hatoum, Bernardo Carvalho e o fim do projeto de uma literatura nacional by Pedro Dolabela Chagas, Dárley Suany Leite dos Santos

“…Then, we analyze Süssekind’s characterizations of fictional narrators that consolidated that function in Bra zil until the 20th century. …”
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„Перед зарей вас родила земля, погибнете вы раньше звезд вечерних”. Роман-памфлет Юрия Домбровского Обезьяна приходит за своим черепом... by Monika Knurowska

“…The novel aims to ridicule the fascists and their ideology. The narrator’s attitude towards all the fascist protagonists is dominated by irony and sarcasm. …”
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Refugee, Shelter and Threat: Nature Represented in f. Sionil Jose’s Dusk by Kristiawan Indriyanto

“…Through the presentation of an omniscient narrator who narrates the journey of Istak Samson and his clan, F.Sionil Jose depicts the lushness of Philippines’ wilderness. …”
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“I am a freak of nature”: Tourette’s and the Grotesque in Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn by Pascale Antolin

“…The specificity of the novel lies the first-person narrator and leading character suffering from Tourette’s syndrome and appropriating the nickname “freak of nature” he was given as a child. …”
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The Music and (dis)harmony of (anti)utopia in Samuel Butler’s Erewhon by Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

“…Lastly, the article will deal with the narrator’s unstable stance and views, which, together with the generic and tonal hybridity of the text and its ironic logic, alternating between satire and (anti)utopia, make the novel go through a series of perplexing ideological fluctuations. …”
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De quelques héritages victoriens dans Ever After de Graham Swift (1992) by Isabelle Roblin

“…How relevant is this Victorian heritage for a late 20th century narrator or for contemporary literature? I shall try and suggest a few leads to answer these questions.…”
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Féerie pour un scandale : l’art et la morale dans Lolita (1958) de Vladimir Nabokov by Jacques Sohier

“…The moral apotheosis of the narrator-character Humbert Humbert consists in the narrative of transgressive acts like pedophilia and incest. …”
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Banishment into Wilderness: The Trauma of Dispossession and Dislocation in "Gravel Heart" by Jacinta Matheka

“…I explore how the protagonist’s narration mimics the articulation of traumatic reality of migrants both in content and form. …”
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Waterloo in Vanity Fair or the Art of not Representing War by Marianne Camus

“…The narrator of Vanity Fair, warns his reader just as he is about to start his description of Waterloo, “We do not claim to rank among the military novelists.” …”
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Reading John 11:1-45 from a post-normal times perspective by J. Thomaskutty

“…The article attempts to explore the complexities, chaotic situations, and contradictions embedded within the narrative master plan of the story. In order to suggest a new way forward, the narrator develops her/his arguments by focusing on the three tomorrows of the story, as s/he provides several narrative clues about the extended present, the familiar futures, and the unthought futures. …”
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An analysis of Masoud Kimiyaei’s novel, Jasadhaye Shishei by by Teymoor Malmir, Sarkoo Nazir Hosein

“…Characterization of the novel is generally satisfactory; however, in some cases, the narrator passes judgment instead of storytelling through the character’s actions or sayings. …”
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