Since modernism, omniscient narration has often been attacked, but it has rarely been studied and understood, despite its role in narrative discourse and metadiscourse. This article examines the polemics between two narrative theorists, Jonathan Culler and Meir Sternberg, who diverge on the nature of narrative omniscience and the usefulness of the concept for the study of narration. It also deals with the discussion of omniscient narration and the omniscient narrator by Matias Martínez and Janko Kos to shed light on the background and scope of their approaches and to point to the characteristics of omniscient narration that speak for its "long duration" in the world of narrative.
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"Textual and Contextual Spaces" (pp. 199-216): This chapter discusses the spatial turn in the humanities and literary studies, adressing the semantics of the text's spatial structure and pointing to the textual or intertextual construction of social spaces which contextualize literary discourse.
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A cultural landscape is simultaneously a complex phenomenon and a process; it is a medium and a result of human activities and perception. This monograph is based on a postmodern view of the landscape and it understands the landscape not only as a physical phenomenon, but especially as a social and cultural document. Reading this document discloses the layers of meaning and processes that comprise it. This study examines the understanding and perception of the spatial effects from the history of Slovenian Istria in the twentieth century. It does not deal with direct changes in cultural landscape features, but rather with people’s relationship to them, and so social representation theory is used to represent landscape as a complex phenomenon. The focus is on representations of the landscape and history, such as their appearance in various literary, professional, and scholarly texts. Any literature can be a source for scholarly study and can enable the creation of new geographical knowledge and awareness. This study is constructed on the metaphor “the landscape is a text" that is written or shaped by society.
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