Narrator
摘要
As the cornerstone for the construction of any narrative, the narrator is the key figure in originating a full-fledged narrative. Narratology during the last century has developed around the issues related to, and complicated by, the narrator’s notorious elusive identity. Jonathan Culler rightly observes, “Identifying narrators is one of the primary ways of naturalizing fiction”. By “naturalizing” he means understanding the text in common sense, that is, retelling (mentally, in most cases) the plot in a straight-forward manner. Furthermore, most narratologists agree that “an inner-textual narrator can in principle be assigned to any narrative text, not just a fictional one”.