License open-access :. Anafora provides open access to all its content to support greater global exchange of knowledge. Articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4. All journal content is freely available open access ; authors retain copyright. Email: dumancic. Email: boklopcic ffos. To show the power of perspective in a literary work, the paper focuses on the young adult novel series The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater. The term narrative is often used in both popular and academic discourses.
It is a part of the act of narration β an act of telling someone about something involving not only a listener but also a person who tells a narrative, or a narrator.
Focusing almost entirely on the narrative discourse of the novel, Genette brings together the views of previous researchers and creates a new terminological framework based on binary principles.
In recent years, many new research approaches have entered narrative theory including psychoanalytic, feminist, ideological, rhetorical, ethical, formal, and logical. Both concepts, however, have their shortcomings.
According to Schmid ,. Genette further distinguishes at least two subtypes of homodiegetic narrator:. Watson of Conan Doyle. Regardless of being heterodiegetic or homodiegetic, a narrator fulfils various functions within a narrative. These functions are often blurred or combined within a narrative. The choice of POV can, up to a point, determine the theme of the story.
