After planning what I wanted to do my EPQ on for a while, I have finally settled on something that has interested me as a literature student and aspiring author for a while now: the use of narrative voice and viewpoint. Two things sparked my interest in this topic, and these stemmed from books that I have studied and read for pleasure. Firstly, the unique and unconventional narrators used by many authors (mainly, but not exclusively, modern). Secondly, the narrative voice and, more specifically, the use of change in narrative voice throughout texts. Therefore, for this project, I will be looking at novels and short stories over plays and poems, mainly because this applies more to this field. I have been collecting various books that discuss this topic from the college library and a local university library, and, from those I have collected, I have selected a few which will be the most beneficial. I will be focussing on these books in this blog post and creating a separate post ...
A study into the effects and relevance of the narrator and viewpoint in literature, and how this has evolved in the history of writing.