In the wake of New Criticism, the " interpretation " era focused on works of fiction and analysis of literature, and the study of persona, narrators, and the implied author.
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In his 1961 book " The Rhetoric of Fiction ", Wayne C . Booth introduced the term " implied author " to distinguish the virtual author of the text from the real author.
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The implied author statement is that none of the factions encountered in the series are malicious, but merely forced into destructive acts by their modified natures the Aldenata are the only true " evil " in their namesake fictional universe.
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Instead of relying on the device of the implied author and a text-centered analysis of unreliable narration, Ansgar N�nning gives evidence that narrative unreliability can be reconceptualized in the context of frame theory and of readers'cognitive strategies.
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In other words, we must not abuse or ventriloquise this implied author's voice by making it say bad things, giving it its own point of view, allowing it generalities, vaguenesses, partiality, slanginess, nationalism, whatever.
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To write a good encyclopedia article we have to do all we can to prevent our own voice intruding on the implied author's; and we have to construct and protect that implied author's voice so that it does not go to the dark side.
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To write a good encyclopedia article we have to do all we can to prevent our own voice intruding on the implied author's; and we have to construct and protect that implied author's voice so that it does not go to the dark side.
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To Clark Zlotchew, the differentiating factor between the fantastic and magical realism is that in fantastic literature, such as Kafka's story " The Metamorphosis ", there is a hesitation experienced by the protagonist, implied author or reader in deciding whether to attribute natural or supernatural causes to an unsettling event, or between rational or irrational explanations.
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This implied author ( a widely used term that Booth coined in this book; whom he also called an author's " second self " ) is the one who " chooses, consciously or unconsciously, what we read; we infer him as an ideal, literary, created version of the real man; he is the sum of his own choices ."
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Booth also spent several chapters which include numerous references to and citations from widely recognized works of fiction describing the various effects that implied authors achieve along the various lines of interest that he identifies, and the pitfalls they fall into, depending upon whether the implied author provides commentary, and upon the degree to which a story's narrator is reliable or unreliable, personal or impersonal.
