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  • 6 - Perspective

  • from Part I - Parts of Prose
  • Edited by Daniel Tyler, University of Cambridge
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Prose
    Published online:
    05 November 2021
    Print publication:
    18 November 2021, pp 96-111

  • Summary

    This chapter shows that the management of perspective in narrative fiction is a matter of technique at the level of the sentence, involving diction, syntax and punctuation. Ruth Bernard Yeazell distinguishes different varieties of perspective available in fiction (third person, first person, free indirect style) and shows how they work in practice. Her suggestion that the familiar but misleading concept of the ‘omniscient narrator’ emerges from ‘confusing the power theoretically open to novelists from the actual behavior of novelists’ indicates the benefits of attending to examples of prose in practice.