tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post1480438298398768302..comments2024-03-26T23:41:10.319+00:00Comments on Authors Electric: DRAGONCATS AND KINDLES by Enid RichemontKatherine Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-78260939962987264242012-02-04T13:00:11.160+00:002012-02-04T13:00:11.160+00:00Enid, I was fascinated by your comments on Miss Ha...Enid, I was fascinated by your comments on Miss Havisham. Yes, how indeed does she go to the loo in that wedding dress? Perhaps Estella helps her. I think we should be told. But it made me think of other points in Great Expectations and, following from that, the whole question of what first-person narratives actually ARE. What does the author think they are? How did the author envisage them being produced by a fictional character? Are they supposed to be actually written by the narrator? Are they supposed to be dictated to a convenient and very overworked typist? Are they put together by a ghost writer? Are they supposed to be transcribed from a tape-recorder (in this case a Victorian model)? I came to this question through the remark of a literary critic writing about Dickens. He asked why it is that, when we never see Pip even lift up a pen throughout the whole novel, the only thing we can say with absolute confidence about him is that he is a suoperlative novelist?<br /><br />Think about it. It's worried me for years - and about every other first-person narrative, including my own because I often use the convention.Dennis Hamleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15781139870037634374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-25124314282068592652012-01-28T11:02:06.759+00:002012-01-28T11:02:06.759+00:00The Kindle grows better with use. It is odd at fir...The Kindle grows better with use. It is odd at first, but you do get used to it!madwippitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02595748471651052552noreply@blogger.com