Timeline for Distinction between author and narrator/speaker
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| Apr 29, 2023 at 2:26 | comment | added | MJ713 | I feel this doesn't fully address the question. OP want to know about cases where the relationship between the speaker and the author is not explicitly specified in the work, and what assumptions readers would have typically made in that case. Your two examples don't fit that category, for opposite reasons: Robinson Crusoe explicitly identifies its narrator as not Daniel Defoe, while The Divine Comedy explicitly identifies its narrator as Dante Alighieri, since Beatrice addresses Dante by name at one point. (I suppose that is analogous to an actor "playing himself" on TV...) | |
| Apr 28, 2023 at 15:25 | history | answered | DJClayworth | CC BY-SA 4.0 |