Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 10 AIL 0935 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Joyce's Limited Omniscience
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The idea
The two-question test gives it: not a character in the events, and confined to one mind. That is the glossary's limited omniscient narrator, operating through free indirect discourse so closely that the sentences take her vocabulary as well as her vantage.
In practice
Limited omniscient, very close in.
Where people slip
Her vocabulary, not only her vantage.
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