{"id":2076,"date":"2014-08-30T09:52:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T14:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hilbertthm90.wordpress.com\/?p=2076"},"modified":"2022-06-21T12:34:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T17:34:25","slug":"narrative-voice-vs-narrative-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/2014\/08\/narrative-voice-vs-narrative-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Narrative Voice vs Narrative Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
What is narrative voice?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Narrative voice simply refers to the voice of the words on the page. We’ll explore this in more depth below. This voice does not necessarily mean we’re experiencing the story from the narrator’s point of view.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n What is narrative perspective?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Narrative perspective encompasses more than the voice. It also involves the point of view, mood, and focalizer, to name a few.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I’ve been on a bit of a G\u00e9rard Genette kick lately. <\/p>\n\n\n\n If you don’t know who he is, then you probably haven’t studied much narrative theory. He is mostly known for his work on structuralism, but I’ve never really found the structuralists that interesting or compelling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Genette’s other major work was to almost single-handedly invent the foundations for modern narrative theory (in the 70’s).<\/p>\n\n\n\nNarrative Discourse<\/h2>\n\n\n\n