Omniscience in narrative construction: Old challenges and new

Poetics Today

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 683-794

  Sternberg, Meir ^a  

^a Poetics and Comparative Literature   (Israel)

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EID: 61049505277     PISSN: 03335372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/03335372-2007-012     Document Type: Review

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