Figurally Colored Narration

af Wolf Schmid

Figurally colored narration (FCN) is narrator¿s discourse (whether in the first or third person) that adopts salient features of character¿s text, mainly valuation and designation, without signaling the figural part in any way. Unlike free indirect discourse, FCN does not refer to current acts of consciousness, but to typical, characteristic segments of the character¿s text. There are two main modes of FCN: contagion of the narrator¿s discourse with a character¿s text, and the more or less ironi... (Læs mere)