单词 | narratee |
释义 | narrateen. Chiefly Literary Theory. A person or character to whom a narrative is addressed. (Correlative to narrator.)A narratee may be a character within a narrative (such as the recipient of letters in an epistolary novel) or the intended reader (explicit or implied) of a narrative text. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [noun] > narrator or story-teller > one to whom narrative is addressed narratee1971 1971 Neophilologus 55 120 If narratives can be classified according to the receiver-directed signals they contain, they can also be classified by the kind of receivers—the ‘narratees’—to whom they are supposedly addressed. 1977 Early Amer. Lit. 11 80 Many readers have been tricked into believing that the book was to be read only as a tract for the times and not as a work of fiction with a narrator and narratee. 1983 T. Eagleton Lit. Theory iii. 106 The category of ‘voice’..concerns the act of narrating itself, what kind of narrator and narratee are implied. 2000 Univ. Toronto Q. (Nexis) Sept. Gloria speaks of..addressing her narrative to an undisclosed narratee. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1971 |
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