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• I mean the whole kit-and-kaboodle: the overall structure, and the narrative, the pacing and focalisation, the characterisation, the dialogue, the tone.
• Attenuated focalisation often works subtly in conveying the impression that we are momentarily restricted to the visual range of a particular character.
• The narrator may see something which (at that point) he cannot make out, and that vagueness of vision is conveyed as attenuated GENIUSROI | 14 focalisation.
• It looks at the usefulness of pragmatic theories to the interpretation of literary texts and surveys methods of analysing narrative, with special attention given to narratorial...