Some thoughts on narrator's perspective

Abstract

Several literary scholars name up to six points of view or narrator's perspectives, which also include ‘persons’. Others go further to distinguish between the ‘real’ and ‘implied’ author as opposed to the narrator, and the ‘real’ and ‘implied’ reader as opposed to narratee. Taking the concept ‘perspective’ to mean the degree to which liberty is taken to know the unknown and reach the inaccessible, there are only two perspectives, the omniscient and partially omniscient. The rest fall within this scope.