The relationship between narrative strategies and meaning in William Golding’s the inheritors, pincher martin and free fall

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Çıraklı, Mustafa Zeki

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This dissertation attempts to investigate the relationship between certain narrative strategies and meaning(s), and presents a narratological analysis of Golding’s three novels. It primarily refers to the terminology offered by Genette and Rimmon-Kenan and, considering the mode of narration (voice) and the mode of focalization (mood), it tries to unearth narrative elements in narrative fiction. This dissertation argues that the implied author employs narrative agents and strategies of perspectivisation in order to affect, manipulate, determine or change the meaning(s), and that storytelling authority can be violated or balanced by monitority of perceiving. In The Inheritors, the implied author plays with shifting perspective to portray the other from within; in Pincher Martin, s/he explores temporality and timelessness to reveal post-mortem individual consciousness / unconsciousness, and in Free Fall, s/he produces a first-person retrospective narration where the protagonist deals with the act of story-telling and attempts to reconstruct his identity through manipulating subnarratives and perspectives.

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English literature., Narrator (voice)

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/19481

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M. Z. Çıraklı, “The relationship between narrative strategies and meaning in William Golding’s the inheritors, pincher martin and free fall,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2010.