PERSPECTIVES IN FICTION. CHARACTER-SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE SENTENCES
PERSPECTIVES IN FICTION. CHARACTER-SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE SENTENCES

Summary/Abstract: Our purpose in the present article is to define and exemplify objective and (CHARACTER) subjective sentences occurring in narrative fiction. These two categories find their roots in the poetic school of thought, which starts from the premise that a narrator viewed as SPEAKER is not necessarily at the origin of all textual instances. Our approach encompasses the idea that perspectives in fiction are either objective - if their purpose is to actually constitute the world of fiction, or subjective - if they are part of a character’s personal world representation. We mainly focus on free indirect discourse for illustrating CHARACTER-subjective sentences, while presenting some objective sentences, as well, for a contrasting view.

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