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Narrative Theories of America and Europe: The Implied Author and Narrator

Teck-Young Kwon 1

1경희대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

At the beginning of the last century, the new science known as narrative theory emerged. In the response of an epistemological scepticism on the stories, America and Europe demonstrated a slightly different reactions on the question how the given narrative text directs the reader to the specific way of reading. Through the survey of the main texts of narratology, this paper foregrounds the differences and the similarities between two sides, and investigates the controversies caused by them in the Post-classical narratologies. While American tends to utilize the concepts of plot and invent such term as the implied author, European revitalizes the term, sjuzet, and develops the concepts of narrator. From the results of those differences which is reflecting the two regions' different intellectual environment, the present discussions seek for rereading the old terms of the implied author as well as narrator in order to consider which one is more appropriate for the narrative text after Post-modern Cultural Studies.

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