Digital Effects in the Novel. Preliminary Notes on Camera Eye Fiction
Abstract
The essay deals with the historical and theoretical issue of the (so-called) camera eye technique, which has been spreading since about 1950. It is a kind of narrative (something like a codified situation) which merges subjectivity with objectivity, involvement of the narrator with impersonality, and often cancels the opposite characteristics of the two poles. However, the realm in which this way of forming the storyworld is located is probably in relation to first-person texts, to a very atypical form of homodiegesis.
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