How to analyze narrative perspective - point of view - narration

At school or uni a common task is to analyze the narrative perspective (also called point of view) of novels, short stories and other prose texts. They are usually told either by a first-person narrator or a third-person narrator (who can be "omniscient"), looking at this in detail means analyzing the narration techniques the author uses. In this video, I'll give you advice on how to find out which kind of narrator the text you're looking at uses and which effect the form of narration has on the story.
In another step, I point out how to use this information to create paragraphs for a written analysis.
Let me know in the comments if you've got any questions or have a good idea for a new video!
See you soon,
Mr V

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Could you help me understanding the focalisation, focaliser, and how can be found in a story?

[@MrVEnglischundSport]

Hi - it is sort of a different approach to narrative theory. There are parallels, of course: a homodiegetic narrator would be a first person or third person limited narrator in the terminology I use in this video. A heterodiegetic narrator would be a third person unlimited, omniscient narrator. Hope that helps a little!

[@charlesforceville]

@@MrVEnglischundSport I can agree with the overview of "narration" in the video (well done!), but in my view this response to the issue of "focalization" misses the point. Focalization pertains to the literal or mental point-of-view adopted. Often the narrator is simultaneously the focalizer, but things get complicated as well as interesting when a narrator delegates focalization to a character (who may or may not be a narrator him/her/+ self) -- and the (first) narrator may be mistaken about, or biased toward, or plainly ill-disposed to the character via which this narrator focalizes. This means that we cannot automatically trust the version the narrator presents of the character's experience (most of the time: = visual, aural, mental perspective) of the story world. The possibility that the narrator is wrong will typically not play a role in the case of an omniscient narrator (whose judgment can after all be trusted), but it will occur often in the case of a character-narrator who attributes focalization to another character. "In "John said that Marguerita had seen a UFO.," John (= narrator) may be wrong, or lying about the experience of Marguerita (= focalizer). The possibility that John is wrong (by no means rare in stories) makes the situation more complex as well as more intriguing. Can we, as readers, trust John to be right about Marguerita? If he is not right, what is the reason of this? But the complexity can become even greater if there is a string of narrators and/or focalizers, e.g, in "Mary heard that John said that Marguerita had seen a UFO." A little bit of this complexity is captured in a short animation film on "narration and focalization" that was made by students of HKU in Utrecht and supervised by me. It can be found at kzbin.info/www/bejne/eX3NlIl-m6mqjc0 For those truly interested in the intricacies of narration and focalization, their interrelations, and the intriguing phenomenon of "free indirectness," I take the liberty of pointing to my paper on these issues with reference to comics, forthcoming in Pragmatics & Cognition 30(1) (2023).

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​@@charlesforceville A bit of self-promotion, lol But thank you so much. It is incredibly interesting. And you're right, he really did miss the point. It's so great that people like you exist and share your knowledge with the world. :)

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What about the "third-person objective/observer narrator"?

[@MrVEnglischundSport]

It's part of the third-person limited narrator, a sub-category so to speak.

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German, but I lived in the US for a year and in Canada for more than a year 🙂

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Gibt es einen Unterschied zwischen Narrative techniques und narrative perspective

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Ja Narrative perspecitve beschreibt wie der Erzähler auf das Geschehen blickt und narrative techniques wie die Geschichte erzählt wird

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@@user-wu5dm6ej2y gibt es irgendwo ein video wo die techniques erklärt werden? ich brauche da hilfe sehe aber nur videos zu perspective.