Od realističkog iluzionizma do naratologije: pripovjedačko gledište između Jamesa i Genettea
From Realistic Illusionism to Narratology: Point of View between James and Genette

Summary/Abstract: The author discusses the modifications undergone by the notion and term "point of' view" from Henry James, for whom it was primarily away of revealing the drama of consciousness as shown to the reader in the effort to create realistic illusion, to Gerard Genette, a critic who refutes the experiential and representational role of fiction al discourse, and stresses the poetics and rhetoric of fiction as narrative told by a narrator. Thus "point of view", much and variously revised as notion, but still going strong as critical term, continues to haunt the labyrinth s of narratology, as devised by formalism and structuralism in the effort to see literature primarily as an extension of the properties inherent in language. True, some post-structuralists have questioned the validity of the term because they feel that it is inherently referential. These critics have, however, chosen another James, the advocate of notions symbolized in his "Figure in the Carpet" , as emblematic of the most recent developments in fiction theory. We need not worry about James's fate as a critic, the author tells us in her conclusion: no matter who wins, James remains. Dying in one figure, he is rebom in another.

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