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This is a 12 page paper that provides an overview of how narration effects the content and theme of Woolf's "To the Lighthouse" and James' "The Turn of the Screw". A contrast is drawn between the multifaceted narration of Woolf and the insular unreliable narrator of James. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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singular and unique problem of determining whether or not the voice of the story in any way affects the veracity of the story. In other words, if a story like
"Don Quixote" is narrated by an individual who is by all interpretations prone to delusions and exaggerations, is it not proper to assume that those delusions and exaggerations would find
their way into the telling of the story? Of course, literary criticism has not also been so sophisticated as to take recognition of the fact that narrative voice can affect
the reliability of the narrative. For example, Dostoevskys famous work, "Notes from Underground" features one of Western literatures most famous unreliable narrators, but it wasnt until the 20th century that
criticism emerged which recognized the importance of the narrators character in interpreting the story at the content level; prior to that, critics were content primarily to view the narrator of
"Notes" as simply a brilliant case study in existential dread and anxiety. In that same period, works produced by the modernist movement became to actively exploit the use of the
unreliable narrator as a literary device. In many cases, the understanding of who is narrating a story at any given point became critical to interpreting the story, and some authors
such as Faulkner even began to tell stories from a multitude of narrative perspectives all at once. Virginia Woolfs "To the Lighthouse" and Henry James "The Turn of the Screw"
provide excellent instructive examples of how an authors choice of narrator might affect the readers ultimate understanding of a story. This paragraph provides aid to the student in providing
a summary overview of the texts to be analyzed. In order to understand the function of narration within each text, it is essential to begin with a summary analysis of
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