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Page 162
... narrator.32 In the epics of Homer and Virgil the narrator keeps the story in the foreground and only rarely interrupts the narrative to offer commentary . The narrator of the Metamorphoses , however , repeatedly interrupts the direct ...
... narrator.32 In the epics of Homer and Virgil the narrator keeps the story in the foreground and only rarely interrupts the narrative to offer commentary . The narrator of the Metamorphoses , however , repeatedly interrupts the direct ...
Page 168
... narrator's values with those of the imag- ined reader . Put simply , these comments are essentially rhetorical , for they attempt to persuade the reader that the narrator's evalua- tions of episodes are trustworthy . Such comments are ...
... narrator's values with those of the imag- ined reader . Put simply , these comments are essentially rhetorical , for they attempt to persuade the reader that the narrator's evalua- tions of episodes are trustworthy . Such comments are ...
Page 173
... narrator to characters as Paradise Lost progresses . At the pivotal moment of Eve's departure from Adam on the morning of the temptation , the narrator bursts forth with a remarkably specific expression of grief : O much deceav'd , much ...
... narrator to characters as Paradise Lost progresses . At the pivotal moment of Eve's departure from Adam on the morning of the temptation , the narrator bursts forth with a remarkably specific expression of grief : O much deceav'd , much ...
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